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 … find fairly robust evidence suggesting that the actual generosity of UI does matter for regional unemployment. Increases in …

Using newly digitized unemployment insurance claims data we construct a historical monthly unemployment series for U …-level unemployment data, which are only available from January 1976 onwards, and capture consistent patterns in the business cycle. We … use our claims-based unemployment series to examine the evolving pace of post-war unemployment recoveries at the state …

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 …

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 …

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 …. This paper examines whether these interactions affect the transition rate from unemployment to employment. To study this …

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 …

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 …

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 … find fairly robust evidence suggesting that the actual generosity of UI does matter for regional unemployment. Increases in …

public unemployment insurance program requiring a significant premium payment. A safety net program--a less generous, means …