We study risk-based selection into a voluntary unemployment insurance (UI) scheme. To disentangle behavioral effects … find that individuals who sign up for UI are negatively selected in terms of subsequent unemployment. However, we find …

selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …

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 …

additional caseworker meeting with the purpose to impose a broader job search strategy. We find that the meeting significantly … job search. We exploit this heterogeneity in caseworker stringency and the random assignment of unemployed workers to … caseworkers within local offices to evaluate the broader search requirement. Our results show that imposing the broader search …

We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most … of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it … as the number of job applications that workers send out. The wage distribution and job search intensities are …

absenteeism and disability insurance applications. This provides evidence both for direct effects of the more intensive screening … on work resumption during sickness absenteeism and for self-screening by potential disability insurance applicants. We do … not find any spillover effects to the inflow into unemployment insurance. A cost-benefit analysis shows that the costs of …

firms can explain the relatively high level of unemployment amongstlower educated workers and the relatively strong … level of education can notexplain the stronger cyclicality of the unemployment rate for lower educatedworkers. We conclude …

This paper investigates the age-dependency of participation andunemployment by integrating job search with … intertemporal optimizing behaviorof finitely-lived households. We find that search frictions and tax ratesdistort the decisions of … pattern of searchunemployment does not match observed unemployment and we propose a new conceptof 'voluntary' unemployment …