Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … relative attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness …

Existing unemployment insurance systems in many OECD countries involve a ceiling on insurable earnings. The result is …

We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the effects of unemployment insurance policies on … unemployment. Our estimates imply that most of the persistent increase in unemployment during the Great Recession can be accounted … for by the unprecedented extensions of unemployment benefit eligibility. In contrast to the existing recent literature …

The objective of this paper is to examine the extent to which an individual?s use of unemployment insurance (UI) as a …

effect of an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) on unemployment we exploit the ceiling on UI benefits. The benefit … the actual replacement rate contribute to higher unemployment as suggested by theory. We also show that removing the wage …We examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and unemployment using Swedish regional data. To estimate the …

of 2.5; 5) job search intensity for those eligible for Unemployment Insurance (UI) increases prior to benefit exhaustion … 50 states and D.C., job search is inversely related to the generosity of unemployment benefits, with an elasticity …; 6) time devoted to job search is fairly constant regardless of unemployment duration for those who are ineligible for UI …

effect of an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) on unemployment we exploit the ceiling on UI benefits. The benefit … the actual replacement rate contribute to higher unemployment as suggested by theory. We also show that removing the wage …We examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and unemployment using Swedish regional data. To estimate the …

The paper describes and evaluates unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) - a relatively new and not well …-known way of providing unemployment benefits. The UISAs reduce work disincentives by allowing recipients to keep their own … unused unemployment contributions, and offer the possibility to extend coverage to informal sector workers. In addition, if …

-employed are not eligible to unemployment insurance, I analyze the provision of benefits targeted at these risks using a calibrated …. This exercise suggests that extending the current US unemployment insurance scheme to the self-employed comes with a clear … larger earnings fluctuations than employees and that they frequently transition into unemployment. Given the self …