Existing unemployment insurance systems in many OECD countries involve a ceiling on insurable earnings. The result is …

The paper develops an equilibrium search and matching model where two-person families as well as singles participate in … receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …

Should unemployment compensation be paid indefinitely at a fixed rate or should it decline (or increase) over a worker …’s unemployment spell? We examine these issues using an equilibrium model of search unemployment. The model features worker … optimal insurance program implies a declining sequence of unemployment compensation over the spell of unemployment. Numerical …

Conventional measures of unemployment do not capture all dimensions of joblessness. A case in point is underemployment … among employed workers, also frequently referred to as parttime unemployment. Workers in this category are employed during a … unemployment. By the end of 2009, part-time unemployment stood at almost 5 percent of the labor force in the OECD area. …

In this paper we develop an equilibrium search and matching model where two-person families as well as singles …-person families receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment …

Should unemployment compensation be paid indefinitely at a fixed rate or should it decline (or increase) over a worker …'s unemployment spell? We examine these issues using an equilibrium model of search unemployment. The model features worker … optimal insurance program implies a declining sequence of unemployment compensation over the spell of unemployment. …

unions run unemployment insurance (UI) through government-subsidized UI funds. This sytem is practiced in four Nordic …

This paper analyzes the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort … featuring indefinite payments of benefits and a system with a time limit on unemployment benefit receipt. The optimal sanction …

econometric testing. The evolution of the economic analysis of unemployment insurance provides a good illustration. New … the economics analysis of unemployment insurance as it has evolved since the 1970s. …

This paper provides a review of the recent literature on how incentives in unemployment insurance (UI) can be improved …