pension payments. Therefore, such accounts make unemployment less attractive, intensify job search, and raise employment. In … bargaining creates additional impediments for the positive employment consequences of UISAs …Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts (UISAs) entitle workers to unemployment benefits at the expense of future …

This paper examines the impact of unemployment insurance (UI) on aggregate employment by exploiting cross …, we find no statistically significant impact of increasing UI generosity on aggregate employment. Our point estimates are … uniformly small in magnitude, and the most precise estimates rule out employment-to-population ratio reductions in excess of 0 …

relocate when a change in their employment status occurs. We show that, in equilibrium, wages increase with distance to jobs … unemployed workers at each location in the city. We also show that the equilibrium land rent is negatively affected by the … unemployment benefit because an increase in the latter induce firms to create less jobs, which, in turn, reduces the competition in …

people's employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the …We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment … balances in these accounts are available to them during periods of unemployment. The government is able to undertake balanced …

With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate …

For every payment, there is an equal and opposite tax. In the study of unemployment insurance, economists have … unexamined the influence on labor demand of the unique tax that finances it. Experience rating in unemployment insurance presents …

This paper examines the effects of unemployment benefit duration in Finland. To overcome the problem that the maximum … duration of benefits is the same for all unemployed we exploit two observations. First, despite the uniform maximum benefit … period, potential benefit duration at the beginning of unemployment spells varies across individuals because only those with …

180 days of unemployment for all spells beginning on July 15, 2012. Using Social Security data and a Differences … unemployment duration by 5.7 weeks (or 14%), implying an elasticity of 0.86. We find strong behavioral effects as the reform … reduced the expected unemployment duration right from the beginning of the unemployment spell. While the reform had no effect …

This article analyzes the behavioral effects of unemployment benefits (UB) and it characterizes their optimal level … very low, increasing its level or providing liquidity to the agent can decrease the duration in unemployment; for higher …

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness absence during …