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Unemployment benefits as a search subsidy: New evidence on duration and wage effects of unemployment insurance

Gangl, Markus - 2002

Arbeitslosigkeit. Indem die Anspruchslöhne der Arbeitslosen erhöht werden, sollte die Arbeitslosenversicherung sowohl zu einer … anderen empirischen Studien, die nur den negativen Effekt der Dauer der Arbeitslosigkeit betrachten, werden im vorliegenden DP … Bereich der Lohnveränderungsverteilung nachweisen. Auf Kosten einer geringen Verlängerung der Dauer von Arbeitslosigkeit …

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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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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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Unemployment Insurance and Subsequent Job Duration: Job Matching vs Unobserved Heterogeneity

Belzil, Christian - 2000

The relationship between unemployment benefit duration, unemployment duration and subsequent job duration is investigated using a multi-state duration model with state specific unobserved heterogeneity. I allow maximum benefit duration to be correlated with unemployment duration as well as...

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Intergenerational Influences on the Receipt of Unemployment Insurance in Canada and Sweden

Corak, Miles; Gustafsson, Björn; Österberg, Torun - 2000

The objective of this paper is to examine the extent to which an individual?s use of unemployment insurance (UI) as a young adult is influenced by past experience with the program, and by having had a parent who also collected UI. A major methodological challenge is to determine the extent to...

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Do unemployment benefits increase unemployment? New evidence on an old question

Fredriksson, Peter; Söderström, Martin - 2008

We examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and unemployment using Swedish regional data. To estimate the effect of an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) on unemployment we exploit the ceiling on UI benefits. The benefit ceiling, coupled with the fact that there are regional...

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Do interactions between unemployment insurance and sickness insurance affect transitions to employment?

Hall, Caroline - 2008

Previous research suggests that there are substantial interactions between the unemployment insurance (UI) and the sickness insurance (SI) in Sweden. Moral hazard arises in the interplay between these two social insurance systems, since by reporting sick an unemployed person can postpone the UI...

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How a mandatory activation program reduces unemployment durations: the effects of distance

Krogh Graversen, Brian; van Ours, Jan C. - 2009

In an experimental setting some Danish unemployed workers were assigned to an activation program while others were not. Unemployed who were assigned to the activation program found a job more quickly. We show that the activation effect increases with the distance between the place of residence...

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How changes in unemployment benefit duration affect the inflow into unemployment

van Ours, Jan C.; Tuit, Sander - 2010

We study how changes in the maximum benefit duration affect the inflow into unemployment in the Netherlands. Until August 2003, workers who became unemployed after age 57.5 were entitled to unemployment benefits until the age of 65, after which they would receive old age pensions. This...

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Incentive effects of unemployment insurance savings accounts: evidence from Chile

Reyes Hartley, Gonzalo; van Ours, Jan C.; Vodopivec, Milan - 2010

This study examines the determinants of job-finding rates of unemployment benefit recipients under the Chilean program. This is a unique, innovative program that combines social insurance through a solidarity fund (SF) with self-insurance in the form of unemployment insurance savings accounts...

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