The provision of unemployment insurance is associated with adverse incentive effects caused by moral hazard. Monitoring together with sanctions is one of possible instruments to restore incentives without reducing the unemployment subsidies provided by the unemployment insurance system. Benefit...

From a panel data study in OECD countries we try to determine the medium-term factors explaining the evolution of households saving. This approach enables to take into account the impact of medium-term factors, such as public saving or demography, that are difficult to identify in a time-series...