In 2001 and 2002, Sweden introduced several unemployment insurance reforms. A major innovation in the first reform was … among men and women. The two reforms in conjunction are estimated to have increased the expected duration of unemployment … among men but to have decreased the duration of unemployment among women. The overall effect on the duration of unemployment …

In June 1995, the Swedish parliament decided to cut the replacement rate in unemployment insurance from 80 percent to …

The issue of whether unemployment benefits should increase or decrease over the unemployment spell is analyzed in an … search productivity of unemployed is constant over the unemployment spell, benefits should typically increase or be constant …

the design of optimal unemployment insurance in an economy with unemployment as well as part-time unemployment. Part …-time unemployment provides income insurance and serves as a stepping stone to full-time jobs. Unemployment benefits for part …-timers increase the outflow from unemployment to part-time work but reduce the outflow from part-time work to fulltime employment. We …

This paper studies how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects individuals’ job search behavior and re …-employment outcomes. We exploit an unexpected reform of the German unemployment insurance scheme in 2008, which increased the potential … benefit duration from 12 to 15 months for recipients of age 50 to 54. Based on detailed survey data and difference …

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 …

wealth decreases, a finding which is in accordance with our empirical duration analysis using micro data on unemployment … positive duration dependence over unemployment spells via its inverse relationship with the worker s wealth. …In this paper we consider a risk averse worker who is moving back and forth between employment and unemployment …

We identify the causal effect of lump-sum severance payments on non-employment duration in Norway by exploiting a … likely to exist also in other countries. -- unemployment ; optimal unemployment insurance ; liquidity constraints ; mental …

for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum …-experimental situation from which a lot can be learned about the impact of unemployment insurance rules on the dynamics of employment …, unemployment, and wages. We find that the REBP led to a tremendous increase in unemployment, which was due to both an increase in …