This paper presents new evidence on why unemployment insurance (UI) benefits affect search behavior and develops a … unemployment durations caused by UI benefits is due to a quot;liquidity effectquot; rather than distortions in marginal incentives …

It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations. This result has traditionally been … hazard. This paper questions this interpretation by showing that unemployment benefits can also affect durations through an … proxies such as asset holdings. I find that increases in unemployment benefits have small effects on durations in the …

This paper studies eight countries in which the regulation of unemployment benefits and related benefits and the … Unemployment Benefit Scheme.This paper has been prepared at the request of the European Commission as Task 1A of the research … project on the Feasibility and Added Value of a European Unemployment Benefit Scheme. The principal authors are Frank …

This paper studies eight countries in which the regulation of unemployment benefits and related benefits and the … Unemployment Benefit Scheme …

This paper investigates the incentives that may induce workers to supplement income from unemployment benefits by … schedule of benefit payments, we describe how informal sector participation changes over the duration of unemployment, in turn … analysis identifies scope for reallocation of resources towards less generous programmes within unemployment protection, which …

We study how the level of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits that trades off the consumption smoothing benefit with … moral hazard cost is procyclical, greater when the unemployment rate is relatively low. By contrast, our evidence suggests … standard deviation increase in the unemployment rate leads to a roughly 14 to 27 percentage point increase in the welfare …

optima, non-linear income taxation is a key complement to unemployment insurance. According to the level of the workers …

This paper presents new evidence on why unemployment insurance (UI) benefits affect search behavior and develops a … unemployment durations caused by UI benefits is due to a "liquidity effect" rather than distortions in marginal incentives to …

It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations. This result has traditionally been … hazard. This paper questions this interpretation by showing that unemployment benefits can also affect durations through an … proxies such as asset holdings. I find that increases in unemployment benefits have small effects on durations in the …

Previous research suggests that there are substantial interactions between the unemployment insurance (UI) and the …. This paper examines whether these interactions affect the transition rate from unemployment to employment. To study this … suggesting that the reduced sick reƯport rate in turn affected the transition rate to employment. -- Unemployment insurance …