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insurance (UI) scheme and the voting behaviour on unemployment policy reforms. In a first step, the optimal defined benefit and …
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I study the consequences of heterogeneity of skills for the design of an optimal unemployment insurance, using a … during unemployment due to depreciation of skills and increases on the job because of learning by doing. Any insurance …
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high productivity sector, but need to reallocated always when the sector is hit by a negative productivity shock. On the …
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This paper presents results of an on-going joint European Commission / OECD project, aimed at monitoring the direct influence of tax and benefit instruments on household incomes. Indicators of financial work incentives are needed for identifying any undesired influences of taxes and social...
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This paper analyses a model of private unemployment insurance under limited commitment and a model of public … unemployment insurance subject to moral hazard in an economy with a continuum of agents and an infinite time horizon. The dynamic … and steady-state properties of the private unemployment insurance scheme are established. The interaction between the …
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therefore yield substantial benefits in terms of reducing the adverse incentives of unemployment insurance. …
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This paper analyses the factors determining reservation wages in Estonia, and estimates the influence of the reservation wage on unemployment duration. According to estimations there is no statistically significant effect of unemployment benefit and social assistance on the reservation wage in...
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This paper considers the methodology of measuring replacement rates, comparing simulation based approaches, which simulate replacement rates for a representative sample of the population, with other approaches that simulate replacement rates for "typical" families or are entirely based on...
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The system of Unemployment Insurance (UI) financing in the US draws its funds from a payroll tax on employers and …
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Insurance (UI) entitlement on job separations. Economic theory motivates estimation of a competing risk hazard model for quits …
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