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Unemployment compensation under partial program coverage
Regev, Tali - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 6, pp. 888-897
More than half of the unemployed in the U.S. are not covered by unemployment insurance. For them the provision of employment-dependent UI creates an additional benefit from work: future UI eligibility. This paper explores the overall and distributional effects of providing unemployment...
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Improving incentives in unemployment insurance : a review of recent research
Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - 2003
This paper provides a review of the recent literature on how incentives in unemployment insurance (UI) can be improved. We are particularly concerned with three instruments, viz. the duration of benefit payments (or more generally the time sequencing of benefits), monitoring in conjunction with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507749
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Business cycles, unemployment insurance, and the calibration of matching models
Costain, James; Reiter, Michael - 2003
This paper points out an empirical failing of real business cycle models in which unemployment is endogenized through a matching function. One can easily choose a calibration to make the cyclical fluctuation in unemployment as large in the model as it is in the data, or to make the response of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509369
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Discretionary extensions to unemployment insurance compensation and some potential costs for a McCall worker
Ryan, Rich - In: Risks : open access journal 11 (2023) 10, pp. 1-39
Unemployment insurance provides temporary cash benefits to eligible unemployed workers. Benefits are sometimes extended by discretion during economic slumps. In a model that features temporary benefits and sequential job opportunities, a worker's reservation wages are studied when policymakers...
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Using a natural experiment to estimate the effects of the unemployment insurance payroll tax on wages, employment, claims, and denials
Anderson, Patricia M.; Meyer, Bruce D. - 1998
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Grenzen der Versicherbarkeit : private Arbeitslosenversicherung
Hartmann, Philipp - 1998
Arbeitslosenversicherung wird auch als eine der Ursachen für die zu konstatierende Persistenz der Arbeitslosigkeit auf dem deutschen … Arbeitsmarkt angesehen. Neben der Kritik am bisherigen System hat das Angebot einer privaten Arbeitslosenversicherung in … Deutschland die Diskussion sowohl über die Privatisierung der gesetzlichen Arbeitslosenversicherung als auch über die …
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Anreizwirkungen und Arbeitsmarkteffekte der Ausgestaltung einer Arbeitslosenversicherung
Schulze, Sven - 2004
Modellierung der Ausgestaltungsmerkmale einer Arbeitslosenversicherung gelegt. Die ökonomische Theorie trifft hierzu oft nur … Wirkungen einer Arbeitslosenversicherung zusammenzufassen und zu überprüfen. Besonderes Augenmerk wird dabei auf die … Index zeigt abschließend im Rahmen einer deskriptiven Analyse der deutschen Arbeitslosenversicherung, daß diese zuletzt …
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The impact of labor market reforms on capital flows, wages and unemployment
Beissinger, Thomas - 2001
The paper contributes to the globalization debate by scrutinizing the international spillover effects which are provoked if a single country reduces the generosity of the unemployment compensation system or weakens labor union power. For this purpose a two-country model with imperfect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404156
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Improving incentives in unemployment insurance : a review of recent research
Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - 2003
This paper provides a review of the recent literature on how incentives in unemployment insurance (UI) can be improved. We are particularly concerned with three instruments, viz. the duration of benefit payments (or more generally the time sequencing of benefits), monitoring in conjunction with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001755426
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Temporary shocks and unavoidable transitions to a high-unemployment regime
Den Haan, Wouter J. - 2003
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