-experimental situation from which a lot can be learned about the impact of unemployment insurance rules on the dynamics of employment … for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum …, unemployment, and wages. We find that the REBP led to a tremendous increase in unemployment, which was due to both an increase in …

In June 1995, the Swedish parliament decided to cut the replacement rate in unemployment insurance from 80 percent to … among unemployed insured individuals. To identify the effect of the policy we exploit a quasi-experimental feature of the … benefit cut: only a fraction of the unemployed was affected by the reduction in replacement rates. We compare the evolution of …

welfare gains but gives rise to large wage differentials. -- job search ; wage bargaining ; wage differentials ; unemployment … receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance … systems, recognizing the role of spousal employment as a partial substitute for public insurance. The optimal system involves …

offers a brief overview and discussion of research on the labor market impacts of minimum wages (MW), unemployment insurance … (UI), and employment protection legislation (EPL). It is argued that research on UI is largely a success story, involving … market behavior, in particular the duration of unemployment, although there remains substantial uncertainty about the …

affect individual decisions on absence and search and the implications for employment, unemployment and nonparticipation. The …The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears … movements across labor force states. The employed worker prefers absence for sufficiently severe sickness and the unemployed …

unemployment to employment. We take advantage of the fact that the reforms had quasi-experimental features where the treatmentsʺ …In 2001 and 2002, Sweden introduced several unemployment insurance reforms. A major innovation in the first reform was … the introduction of a two-tiered benefit structure for some unemployed individuals. This system involved supplementary …

costs due to changes in the unemployment insurance system and costs due to behavioral responses of unemployed workers …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 …

-timers increase the outflow from unemployment to part-time work but reduce the outflow from part-time work to fulltime employment. We …A significant fraction of the labor force consists of employed workers who are part-time unemployed (underemployed) in … the design of optimal unemployment insurance in an economy with unemployment as well as part-time unemployment. Part …

The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s … by a period of sharp deflation where nominal wages and prices fell by 30 percent and unemployment increased from 5 to 30 … percent. We examine whether relatively standard wage and employment equations can account for the volatile economic …

This paper provides a review of the recent literature on how incentives in unemployment insurance (UI) can be improved …