and efficient bargaining - to the existence of a budget constraint pending on the financing of the unemployment benefit …, implications of union having control over membership, and, hence, of unemployment insurance coverage, are also considered, as well … as of different fiscal scenarios on the form of financing the unemployment benefit bill. …

also find that the quality of the post-unemployment jobs was not affected by the activation program. Both findings confirm … that activation programs mainly work because they are compulsory and unemployed don't like them. -- Unemployment insurance … ; unemployment duration ; experiment ; activation programs …

Unemployment insurance recipients in the Netherlands were for a long time exempted from the requirement to actively …

also find that the quality of the post-unemployment jobs was not affected by the activation program. Both findings confirm …

applies less effort. We then revisit the design of optimal unemployment insurance in this environment. If the individual is … empirical studies), declining unemployment benefits reduce the payoff from crime relative to that from searching. Compared to … the canonical models of optimal unemployment insurance, this provides a further incentive to reduce benefits over time …

In response to unemployment shocks, older workers deplete their 401(k)s, particularly after the waiving of the early … withdrawal penalty on unemployment-motivated withdrawals at age 55. This paper shows that Unemployment Insurance (UI) keeps older …

Economies with low unemployment often have high disability rates. In Norway, the permanent disability insurance rolls … outnumber registered unemployment by four to one. Based on administrative register data matched with firms' financial statements … percent of all new disability insurance claims. We conclude that unemployment and disability insurance are close substitutes …

We study how changes in the maximum benefit duration affect the inflow into unemployment in the Netherlands. Until … August 2003, workers who became unemployed after age 57.5 were entitled to unemployment benefits until the age of 65, after … which they would receive old age pensions. This characteristic made it attractive for workers to enter unemployment shortly …

This study examines the determinants of job-finding rates of unemployment benefit recipients under the Chilean program … the form of unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) - so as to mitigate the moral hazard problem of traditional … unemployment insurance programs. Our study is the first one to empirically investigate whether UISAs improve work incentives. We …