Over the past several decades, the rate at which regular unemployment insurance recipients run out of benefits before … recipients exhausted their benefits; in 2007 (with a similar unemployment rate) 35.6 percent exhausted. This paper documents the … to work as long as they can receive benefits. The dual challenge, then, is to ensure that 1) workers who could benefit …

Over the past several decades, the rate at which regular unemployment insurance recipients run out of benefits before … recipients exhausted their benefits; in 2007 (with a similar unemployment rate) 35.6 percent exhausted. This paper documents the … to work as long as they can receive benefits. The dual challenge, then, is to ensure that 1) workers who could benefit …

institutional moral hazard in a multi-tiered UI system, and give examples of monitoring methods and incentives to ameliorate such …

treatment of employee benefits in the U.S. is a hybrid because we nominally have an income tax under which employer … comfortable with the existing tax treatment of employee benefits and less obsessed than economists with the notion of allocative … labor have at least two reasons for wanting to provide employee benefits and accordingly find the favorable tax treatment of …

benefits. Workers in such arrangements, in turn, are much less likely to receive pension, health insurance, and other benefits … on the job. This paper documents these differences in coverage by benefits regulations and differences in benefits … receipt. The paper also reviews evidence on the incentives employers have to use workers in these various flexible staffing …