public unemployment insurance program requiring a significant premium payment. A safety net program--a less generous, means …

receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …

This paper studies how changes in the two key parameters of unemployment insurance – the benefit replacement rate (RR …) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) – affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made … unemployment insurance more generous by changing, simultaneously, the maximum duration of regular unemployment benefits and the …

This paper analyses crucial design features of unemployment insurance (UI) policies. We examine three different means … workfare. To that end we develop a quantitative model of equilibrium unemployment. The model features worker heterogeneity …

The current unemployment insurance and employment protection legislation were set up in an environment in which … flexibility with that of security for workers. Rather than proposing a reform on the basis of existing institutions abroad, we … propose a reform that is explicitly guided by economic principles. …

In this paper we compare the welfare effects of unemployment insurance (UI) with an universal basic income (UBI) system … shocks. While the unemployment insurance program should do a better job at protecting the unemployed, it suffers from moral …

offers a brief overview and discussion of research on the labor market impacts of minimum wages (MW), unemployment insurance … market behavior, in particular the duration of unemployment, although there remains substantial uncertainty about the …

program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non … unemployment duration and probability of long term unemployment decrease. These effects are the largest when the program intensity …

We study asset-tested unemployment insurance in an incomplete markets model with moral hazard during job search. Asset … incentive to save and fewer private resources are used for consumption smoothing during unemployment. Our results show that in a … time-discount factors. We conclude that the current U.S. unemployment insurance system is approximately optimal. …

distortions caused by public unemployment insurance (UI), but only if firms have access to private insurance. Otherwise firms …