at unemployment with special emphasis on the schemes complementing compensation from the unemployment insurance scheme … prolonged periods of unemployment. Of special interest is that those complementing systems differ between different sectors of …

.We then estimate our sufficient statistics using administrative data on unemployment, income and wealth in Sweden. First, we … unemployment spell. We derive simple sufficient-statistics formulae capturing the insurance value and incentive costs of … unemployment benefits paid at different times during the unemployment spell. Our general approach allows to revisit and evaluate in …

Based on pooled register data from Norway and Sweden, we find that differences in unemployment duration patterns … Sweden than in Norway, leading to relatively longer unemployment spells for low-income workers in Sweden. Based on the … reflect dissimilarities in unemployment insurance (UI) systems in a way that convincingly establishes the link between …

In June 1995, the Swedish parliament decided to cut the replacement rate in unemployment insurance from 80 percent to …

In 2001 and 2002, Sweden introduced several unemployment insurance reforms. A major innovation in the first reform was … compensation during the first 20 weeks of unemployment. The 2002 reform retained the two-tiered benefit structure but involved also … unemployment to employment. We take advantage of the fact that the reforms had quasi-experimental features where the "treatments …

The objective of this paper is to examine the extent to which an individual's use of unemployment insurance (UI) as a … Sweden. Subsequent participation in the Canadian program is influenced by parental UI history. In Sweden individual learning …

This paper investigates the impact of the unemployment insurance (UI) entrance requirement on employment duration in … Sweden. I study employment spells in 1992, 1996, and 1998 to find behavioural adjustments in the timing of job separation …