Recent papers identify the effects of unemployment insurance and potential benefit duration (PBD) on unemployment … dynamic treatment effects and mediation analyses, we find PBD to affect wages even for workers who do not change 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 …

-related Unemployment Insurance. Reflecting that married couples obtain intra-household insurance by making labor supply choices for both …

-related Unemployment Insurance. Reflecting that married couples obtain intra-household insurance by making labor supply choices for both …

-related Unemployment Insurance. Reflecting that married couples obtain intra-household insurance by making labor supply choices for both …

Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and …

This paper discusses the effects of a higher unemployment benefit replacement rate on unemployment durations …, employment and earnings. A reform of the Swiss unemployment insurance in July 2003 increased the replacement rate by up to 5 … approach. The increase in the replacement rate increased unemployment durations, while it did not affect post-unemployment …

We analyze different options for the design of a common unemployment insurance system for the euro area (EA). We assess … degree of cross-country transfers. In the baseline, we focus on a non-contingent scheme covering short-term unemployment and … find that it would have absorbed a significant fraction of the unemployment shock in the recent crisis. However, four …