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 …

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 …

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 …

In January 2003, the unemployment benefits in Finland were increased for workers with long employment histories. The … average benefit increase was 15 per cent for the first 150 days of the unemployment spell. In this paper we evaluate the … effect of the benefit increase on the duration of unemployment by comparing the changes in the re-employment hazard profiles …

systems in Sweden, namely the sickness insurance (SI) and the unemployment insurance (UI). Moral hazard can arise from the …

This paper studies optimal unemployment benefit levels and optimal proportional income tax rates over the business … cycle. Previous research suggests that policy makers should make unemployment insurance (UI) dependent on the business cycle … unemployment. An alternative way to redistribute income is to vary tax rates over the business cycle. In this paper, we develop an …

This paper analyses crucial design features of unemployment insurance (UI) policies. We examine three different means … workfare. To that end we develop a quantitative model of equilibrium unemployment. The model features worker heterogeneity …