We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment …

We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment …

Should unemployment insurance (UI) systems provide coverage for underemployed job seekers? Based on a statistical … analysis of Norwegian unemployment spells, we conclude that the answer to this question is yes. Allowing insured job seekers to … employers as a screening device when hiring from the unemployment pool. …

Based on a sequence of reforms in the Norwegian unemployment insurance (UI) system, we show that activity-oriented UI … on unconditional UI entitlements, and high sanction probabilities - deliver substantially shorter unemployment spells … introduction of a soft constraint appears particularly effective; our results show that the expected unemployment duration falls by …