We examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and unemployment using Swedish regional data. To estimate the … effect of an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) on unemployment we exploit the ceiling on UI benefits. The benefit … find fairly robust evidence suggesting that the actual generosity of UI does matter for regional unemployment. Increases in …

Existing unemployment insurance systems in many OECD countries involve a ceiling on insurable earnings. The result is …

Previous research suggests that there are substantial interactions between the unemployment insurance (UI) and the … benefits. This paper examines whether these interactions affect the transition rate from unemployment to employment. To study …

the design of optimal unemployment insurance in an economy with unemployment as well as part-time unemployment. Part …-time unemployment provides income insurance and serves as a stepping stone to full-time jobs. Unemployment benefits for part …-timers increase the outflow from unemployment to part-time work but reduce the outflow from part-time work to fulltime employment. We …

This paper examines the incentive effects caused by the interactions between unemployment insurance (UI) and sickness …

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

. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and …. The German labor market has been plagued by high and persistent unemployment in the last two decades in combination with a …

This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which … unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain …-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are viewed as the outcome of the interplay between labor market shocks and prolonged …