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Does the Welfare State Destroy the Family? Evidence from OECD Member Countries

Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Scharler, Johann - 2013

divorce rates with a quantitatively stronger effect on the marriage rate. We conclude that the welfare state supports family … involved in the legislative process), we show that an expansion in the welfare state increases the fertility, marriage, and … formation. Nevertheless, we also find that the welfare state decouples marriage and fertility, and therefore, alters the …

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Marriage, Divorce and Interstate Risk Sharing

Halla, Martin; Scharler, Johann - 2008

more aggregated state-level. Quantitatively, the impact of marriage on interstate risk sharing varies over divorce regimes. …In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married …

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Assortative Mating and Divorce: Evidence from Austrian Register Data

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2009

, without the rise in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the … resulting supply of spouses with diverse ethnicity and religious denominations had no overall effect on divorce rates …. Countervailing effects - in line with theoretical predictions - offset each other. The rise in the incidence in divorce is most …

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Optimal Unemployment Insurance Design:Time Limits, Monitoring, or Workfare?

Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - 2003

This paper analyses crucial design features of unemployment insurance (UI) policies. We examine three different means of improving the efficiency of UI: the duration of benefit payments, monitoring in conjunction with sanctions, and workfare. To that end we develop a quantitative model of...

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Optimal Earnings-Related Unemployment Benefits

Taslimi, Mohammad - 2003

Existing unemployment insurance systems in many OECD countries involve a ceiling on insurable earnings. The result is lower replacement rate for employees with relatively high earnings. This paper examines whether replacement rates should decrease as the level of earnings rises. The framework is...

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Improving Incentives in Unemployment Insurance: A Review of Recent Research

Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - 2003

This paper provides a review of the recent literature on how incentives in unemployment insurance (UI) can be improved. We are particularly concerned with three instruments, viz. the duration of benefit payments (or more generally the time sequencing of benefits), monitoring in conjunction with...

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Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Monitoring and Sanctions

Boone, Jan; Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil; van … - 2001

This paper analyzes the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort among the unemployed is not perfectly observable. We examine to what extent the optimal policy involves monitoring of search effort and benefit sanctions if observed search is...

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Sick of Being Unemployed? Interactions Between Unemployment and Sickness Insurance in Sweden

Larsson, Laura - 2002

This paper examines the incentive effects caused by the interactions between unemployment insurance (UI) and sickness insurance (SI), two important components of Sweden's social insurance system. There are two main topics of interest: how the sickness report rate and the length of the subsequent...

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Job search costs and incentives

Zapechelnyuk, Andriy; Zultan, Ro'i - 2012

The costs of searching for a job vacancy are typically associated with friction that deters or delays employment of potentially productive individuals. We demonstrate that in a labor market with moral hazard where effort is noncontractible, job search costs play a positive role, whose effect may...

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Unemployment insurance and the labor market

Zweimüller, Josef - 2018

The existing literature assumes that unemployment insurance (UI) affects the labor market through the job finding rate of eligible workers. I argue that this focus is too narrow. I show evidence for UI effects through three other margins: (i) search externalities; (ii) takeup of other welfare...

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