, analyzes how these differences affect the working of the standard, OECD-style unemployment insurance (UI) program, and derives … a desirable design of unemployment benefit program in developing countries. It argues that these countries – faced by …, and to minimize administration cots, such adaptations include: (i) relying on self-insurance (via unemployment insurance …

The paper describes and evaluates unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) – a relatively new and not well …-known way of providing unemployment benefits. The UISAs reduce work disincentives by allowing recipients to keep their own … unused unemployment contributions, and offer the possibility to extend coverage to informal sector workers. In addition, if …

By simulating the working of the unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) in Slovenia using a methodology … traditional unemployment insurance (UI) system, and how the redistribution of income changes if the UI system is replaced by UISAs …

In 1998 the Slovenian UI system was drastically reformed. The reform reduced the potential duration of unemployment … that the reduction in potential benefit duration had a positive effect on the exit rate out of unemployment – both to … employment and to other destinations – at various durations of unemployment spells and for many categories of unemployed workers …

This paper investigates how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects the quality of post-unemployment … jobs. It takes advantage of a natural experiment introduced by a change in Slovenia’s unemployment insurance law that … the post-unemployment jobs remained unaffected: the paper finds that the law change had no effect on either the type of …

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 …