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Unemployment benefits or taxes: How should policy makers redistribute income over the business cycle?
Ek, Susanne - 2012
This paper studies optimal unemployment benefit levels and optimal proportional income tax rates over the business cycle. Previous research suggests that policy makers should make unemployment insurance (UI) dependent on the business cycle because the UI system can be used to smooth consumption...
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Unemployment benefits or taxes: How should policy makers redistribute income over the business cycle?
Ek, Susanne - 2012
This paper studies optimal unemployment benefit levels and optimal proportional income tax rates over the business cycle. Previous research suggests that policy makers should make unemployment insurance (UI) dependent on the business cycle because the UI system can be used to smooth consumption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282500
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Employment subsidies and substitutable skills: an equilibrium matching approach
Cardullo, Gabriele; van der Linden, Bruno - 2006
The search-matching model is well suited for an equilibrium evaluation of labor market policies. When those policies are targeted on some groups, the usual juxtaposition of labor markets is however a shortcoming. There is a need for a setting where workers' productivity depends on employment...
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Firms, Industries, and Unemployment Insurance: An Analysis Using Employer-Employee Data
Corak, Miles; Chen, Wen-Hao - 2003
Administrative data on the universe of employees, firms, and unemployment insurance (UI) recipients in Canada over an 11 year period are used to examine the operation of UI using the firm as the unit of analysis. Persistent transfers through UI are present at both industry and firm levels, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261547
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Experience Rating of Unemployment Insurance in the US: A Model for Europe?
Fath, Julia; Fuest, Clemens - In: CESifo DICE Report 03 (2005) 2, pp. 45-50
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Unemployment insurance and the business cycle: prolong benefit entitlements in bad times?
Moyen, Stéphane; Stähler, Nikolai - 2009
The aim of this paper is to study the optimal duration of unemployment benefit entitlement duration across the business cycle. We wonder if the entitlement duration should be prolonged in bad and shortened in good times. Because of consumption smoothing, such a countercyclical policy can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299477
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Unemployment benefits as a search subsidy: New evidence on duration and wage effects of unemployment insurance
Gangl, Markus - 2002
Vergleich sind allenfalls die negativen Dauereffekte der Arbeitslosenversicherung in den USA etwas stärker, während in der …Die Suchtheorie macht zwei komplementäre Vorhersagen über den Einfluß der Arbeitslosenversicherung auf die Dynamik von … Arbeitslosigkeit. Indem die Anspruchslöhne der Arbeitslosen erhöht werden, sollte die Arbeitslosenversicherung sowohl zu einer …
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Unemployment benefits and unemployment in the great recession: The role of macro effects
Hagedorn, Marcus; Karahan, Fatih; Manovskii, Iourii; … - 2013
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...
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Job search and unemployment insurance: new evidence from time use data
Krueger, Alan B.; Mueller, Andreas - 2008
This paper provides new evidence on job search intensity of the unemployed in the U.S., modeling job search intensity as time allocated to job search activities. The main findings are: 1) the average unemployed worker in the U.S. devotes about 41 minutes to job search on weekdays, which is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268859
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Contingent convergence: a comparative analysis of activation policies
Eichhorst, Werner; Konle-Seidl, Regina - 2008
The trend towards activation has been one of the major issues in recent welfare and labour market reforms in Europe and the US. Despite considerable initial variation across national models with respect to the scope and intensity of activation, redefining the link between social protection and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269141