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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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Employment, Mobility, and Active Labor Market Programs

Fredriksson, Peter; Johansson, Per - 2003

and increase mobility in the longer run. We consider two prototype programs: job creation programs and training programs …

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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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Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Monitoring and Sanctions

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

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What active labor market policy works in a recession?

Forslund, Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Vikström, Johan - 2011

relative effectiveness of different kinds of programs over the business cycle. In particular we compare an on-the-job training … scheme with (traditional) labor market training. We find that labor market training is relatively more effective in recession …. This result is consistent with our priors since labor market training features relative large lock-in effects. …

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Mandatory Advance Notice of Layoff: Evidence and Efficiency Considerations

Cederlöf, Jonas; Fredriksson, Peter; Nekoei, Arash; … - 2021

We investigate a prevalent, but understudied, employment protection policy: mandatory advance notice (MN), requiring employers to notify employees of forthcoming layoffs. MN increases future production, as notified workers search on the job, but reduces current production as they supply less...

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Optimal unemployment insurance design: Time limits, monitoring, or workfare

Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - 2005

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317971

Employment, mobility, and active labor market programs

Fredriksson, Peter; Johansson, Per - 2003

and increase mobility in the longer run. We consider two prototype programs: job creation programs and training programs …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321057

Optimal unemployment insurance with monitoring and sanctions

Boone, Jan; Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil; van … - 2002

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321089