We study unemployment insurance in a framework where the main source of heterogeneity among agents is the type of … aggregate wealth moments. Our central finding is that changes to the current unemployment insurance program are valued … differently by married and single households. In particular, a more generous unemployment insurance reduces the welfare of married …

Persistently high unemployment rates have stimulated debates whether or not the tax transfer system may be partly …Die anhaltend hohe Arbeitslosigkeit hat verstärkt zu Diskussionen geführt, ob das Steuer-Transfer-System hierfür …

results and may not even be sustainable. In the recent years, common unemployment insurance has been examined as one of the … various options, a partial pooling of unemployment benefit schemes stands out as the model with continuous impact and direct …

This paper studies the macroeconomic effects of an enhancement in unemployment benefits in Korea. In particular, I … unemployment insurance (UI) system in Korea. The quantitative analysis conducted here shows that extending maximum benefit …

I model job-search monitoring in the optimal unemployment insurance framework, in which job-search effort is the worker …'s private information. In the model, monitoring provides costly information upon which the government conditions unemployment …

vor der Hartz-IV-Reform implementiert wurde, einen viel größeren Beitrag zur Verringerung der Arbeitslosigkeit leistete. … Germany. While the reforms consisted of four parts, it was especially the reform of the unemployment benefit system - the … year earlier, was much more successful in reducing unemployment. The reorganisation or the BA accounts for around 20% of …

This paper examines the impact of the fourth partial revision of the law of unemployment insurance (AVIG) on … unemployment dynamics in Switzerland at a cantonal level. The authors apply the Synthetic Control Method (SCM), a matching method … unemployment rate at a cantonal level: the reform had a discernible impact on lowering the unemployment rate in the Italian- and …

unemployment insurance: a large informal sector, weak administrative capacity, and large political risk. It argues that these … countries should tailor an OECD-style unemployment insurance program to their circumstances, among others by relying on self …-insurance (via unemployment insurance savings accounts), complemented by solidarity funding, as a key source of financing; by …