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Optimal unemployment insurance with monitoring and sanctions
Boone, Jan; Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil; Ours, … - 2002
This paper analyzes the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort among the unemployed is not perfectly observable. We examine to what extent the optimal policy involves monitoring of search effort and benefit sanctions if observed search is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011574977
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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/10011575185
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Optimal unemployment insurance with monitoring and sanctions
Boone, Jan; Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil; Ours, … - 2001 - This version: 2 November 2001
This paper analyzes the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort among the unemployed is not perfectly observable. We examine to what extent the optimal policy involves monitoring of search effort and benefit sanctions if observed search is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011587042
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The Effect of Sanctions and Active Labour Market Programmes on the Exit Rate from Unemployment
Ahmad, Nisar; Svarer, Michael - 2009
This paper simultaneously investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions and active labour market programmes on the exit rate from un mployment using Danish data. In the data about one third of the individuals who are sanctioned also participate in some active labour market programmes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014200154
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Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Monitoring and Sanctions
Boone, Jan; Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil; van … - 2010
This paper analyzes the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort among the unemployed is not perfectly observable. We examine to what extent the optimal policy involves monitoring of search effort and benefit sanctions if observed search is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014122877
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Optimal Use of Labor Market Policies : The Role of Job Search Assistance
Wunsch, Conny - 2010
This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is based on a framework, that allows for endogenous choice of benefit types and levels, wage taxes or subsidies, and activation measures such as monitoring and job search assistance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149361
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Labor Market Effects of Unemployment Insurance Design
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; van Ours, Jan C. - 2012
With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate. In this paper, we review the recent theoretical and empirical evidence on the labor market effects of UI design. We also discuss policy issues related to UI design, including...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014164489
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Extended Unemployment Insurance and Job Search : Evidence from Time Use Data
Regmi, Krishna - 2015
In this paper, I investigate the effect of extended unemployment insurance (UI) coverage in the United States in recent years on job search. The U.S. government extended UI benefits in several phases in 2008-2009, increasing the duration of the benefits to a maximum of 99 weeks, up from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031507
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Active and Passive Policies Against Poverty with Decreasing Employability
Richiardi, Matteo G. - 2013
In this paper we propose a dynamic partial equilibrium model in order to explain the search behaviour of low-skilled non employed workers, when their employability decreases as the unemployment spell lengthens. We show that the unemployed react to a reduction in their current search...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095255
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The Role of Caseworkers in Unemployment Insurance: Evidence from Unplanned Absences
Schiprowski, Amelie - 2020
Caseworkers are the main human resources used to provide social services. This paper asks if, and how much, caseworkers … unplanned absences among Swiss UI caseworkers. I find that individuals who lose a meeting with their caseworker stay unemployed … 5% longer. Results show large heterogeneity in the personal impact of caseworkers: the effect of a foregone meeting is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207971