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Identifying risk-based selection in social insurance : new approaches and findings

Ejrnæs, Mette; Hochgürtel, Stefan - 2022

We study risk-based selection into a voluntary unemployment insurance (UI) scheme. To disentangle behavioral effects from selection, we exploit variation in the sign-up induced by an early retirement scheme embedded into the UI system. We combine an event study with a differencein-difference...

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The effect of the Hartz labor market reforms on post-unemployment wages, sorting, and matching

Woodcock, Simon D. - 2020

We use linked longitudinal data on employers and employees to estimate how the 2003-2005 Hartz reforms affected the wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage effects into components attributable to selection on...

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Entering the labour market in a weak economy : scarring and insurance

Cribb, Jonathan; Hood, Andrew; Joyce, Robert - 2017

using consistent long-running household survey data from the UK. In line with previous research, we find persistent scarring … in labour market scarring and insurance is key to understanding why parental incomes insure so much of the shock: lower …-educated young adults experience the worst labour market scarring effects, but they are also highly likely to live with their parents …

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

Gangl, Markus - 2002

Job search models offer two complementary predictions about the effects of unemployment benefits on job search outcomes among unemployed workers. By raising workers' reservation wages, unemployment benefits should contribute to both prolonged spell duration and improved post-unemployment job...

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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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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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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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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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Job search costs and incentives

Zapechelnyuk, Andriy; Zultan, Ro'i - 2012

The costs of searching for a job vacancy are typically associated with friction that deters or delays employment of potentially productive individuals. We demonstrate that in a labor market with moral hazard where effort is noncontractible, job search costs play a positive role, whose effect may...

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