The paper describes and evaluates unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) - a relatively new and not well …-known way of providing unemployment benefits. The UISAs reduce work disincentives by allowing recipients to keep their own … unused unemployment contributions, and offer the possibility to extend coverage to informal sector workers. In addition, if …

The paper describes and evaluates unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) – a relatively new and not well …-known way of providing unemployment benefits. The UISAs reduce work disincentives by allowing recipients to keep their own … unused unemployment contributions, and offer the possibility to extend coverage to informal sector workers. In addition, if …

We analyze for the first time the welfare effects of unemployment benefits (UBs) in a context of high informality …

In this paper, I estimate the fiscal impact of immigrants on the German pension insurance (PI) and unemployment … ; unemployment insurance ; public policy …

Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …

of liquidity provision on unemployment outcomes. Based on a RD Design, I find that granting unemployed workers with a … bonus equal to half of their previous monthly earnings decreases the probability of exiting unemployment within 8 weeks by … unemployment benefits decreases the same outcome by 1.9%. Then, theoretical results from Landais (2014) are used to combine these …

insurance or individual unemployment savings accounts are better. Unemployment insurance finances subsidies through implicit …In reforming unemployment benefit systems, the policy debate should be on the appropriate level of benefits, the … subsidies needed for people who cannot contribute enough, and how to finance the subsidies, rather than on whether unemployment …

, analyzes how these differences affect the working of the standard, OECD-style unemployment insurance (UI) program, and derives … a desirable design of unemployment benefit program in developing countries. It argues that these countries – faced by …, and to minimize administration cots, such adaptations include: (i) relying on self-insurance (via unemployment insurance …

-insurance (via unemployment insurance savings accounts), complemented by solidarity funding, as a key source of financing; by … 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 …

Recent efforts to expand unemployment insurance (UI) eligibility are expected to increase low-earning workers' access …