between high wages and low unemployment risk. A higher marginal tax rate shifts the trade-off in favor of low unemployment … risk, whereas a higher tax burden or unemployment benefit has the opposite effect. Changes in unemployment generate fiscal … and that the provision of unemployment insurance justifies a positive marginal tax rate even without income heterogeneity …

In July 2004, the Belgian government intensified monitoring within the Unemployment Insurance scheme. Workers claiming … unemployment benefits for more than 13 months are notified that past job-search behavior will be monitored 8 months later. In one …

Unemployment insurance (UI) sanctions in the form of benefit reductions are intended to set disincentives for UI …

increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high …

where workers apply for just one job exhibits unemployment and absence of wage dispersion; (ii) an equilibrium where workers … apply for two or for more (but not for all) jobs always exhibits wage dispersion and, typically, unemployment; (iii) the …

The current unemployment insurance and employment protection legislation were set up in an environment in which …

In 2001 and 2002, Sweden introduced several unemployment insurance reforms. A major innovation in the first reform was … compensation during the first 20 weeks of unemployment. The 2002 reform retained the two-tiered benefit structure but involved also … unemployment to employment. We take advantage of the fact that the reforms had quasi-experimental features where the ?treatments …

challenges the two basic functions of the welfare state, redistribution and social insurance when private unemployment insurance … markets are missing. The main results are: (i) outsourcing raises unemployment and labor income risk of unskilled workers; (ii … welfare optimal redistribution and unemployment insurance policies. …