Can unemployment insurance (UI) affect the behavior of employed workers and the duration of their employment spells? I … elasticity affects welfare with a similar magnitude as the well-known elasticity of unemployment duration to the benefit level. …

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 …

Can the potential availability of unemployment insurance (UI) affect the behavior of employed workers and the duration … elasticity impacts welfare with a similar magnitude to the well-known elasticity of unemployment duration to benefit level. …

study the disincentive effect of unemployment insurance on (formal) reemployment in Brazil, and show that our bounds remain …