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Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Monitoring and Sanctions
Boone, Jan; Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil; van … - 2001
This paper analyzes the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort among the unemployed is not perfectly observable. We examine to what extent the optimal policy involves monitoring of search effort and benefit sanctions if observed search is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262603
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Vacancy referrals, job search, and the duration of unemployment: a randomized experiment
Engström, Per; Hesselius, Patrik; Holmlund, Bertil - 2009
One goal of the public employment service is to facilitate matching between unemployed job seekers and job vacancies …; another goal is to monitor job search so as to bring search efforts among the unemployed in line with search requirements. The … referral of job seekers to vacancies is one instrument used for these purposes. We report results from a randomized Swedish …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264562
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Vacancy referrals, job search, and the duration of unemployment: a randomized experiment
Engström, Per; Hesselius, Patrik; Holmlund, Bertil - 2009
One goal of the public employment service is to facilitate matching between unemployed job seekers and job vacancies …; another goal is to monitor job search so as to bring search efforts among the unemployed in line with search requirements. The … referral of job seekers to vacancies is one instrument used for these purposes. We report results from a randomized Swedish …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269342
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Vacancy referrals, job search and the duration of unemployment: A randomized experiment
Engström, Per; Hesselius, Patrik; Holmlund, Bertil - 2009
One goal of the public employment service is to facilitate matching between unemployed job seekers and job vacancies …; another goal is to monitor job search so as to bring search efforts among the unemployed in line with search requirements. The … referral of job seekers to vacancies is one instrument used for these purposes. We report results from a randomized Swedish …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273959
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Optimal unemployment insurance design: Time limits, monitoring, or workfare
Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - 2005
This paper analyses crucial design features of unemployment insurance (UI) policies. We examine three different means of improving the efficiency of UI: the duration of benefit payments, monitoring in conjunction with sanctions, and workfare. To that end we develop a quantitative model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317971
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Vacancy referrals, job search, and the duration of unemployment: A randomized experiment
Engström, Per; Hesselius, Patrik; Holmlund, Bertil - 2009
One goal of the public employment service is to facilitate matching between unemployed job seekers and job vacancies …; another goal is to monitor job search so as to bring search efforts among the unemployed in line with search requirements. The … referral of job seekers to vacancies is one instrument used for these purposes. We report results from a randomized Swedish …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321450
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Optimal Unemployment Insurance Design:Time Limits, Monitoring, or Workfare?
Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - 2003
This paper analyses crucial design features of unemployment insurance (UI) policies. We examine three different means of improving the efficiency of UI: the duration of benefit payments, monitoring in conjunction with sanctions, and workfare. To that end we develop a quantitative model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321532
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Improving Incentives in Unemployment Insurance: A Review of Recent Research
Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - 2003
that the case for imposing a penalty on less active job search is fairly solid. A growing number of empirical studies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321601
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Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Monitoring and Sanctions
Boone, Jan; Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil; van … - 2001
This paper analyzes the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort among the unemployed is not perfectly observable. We examine to what extent the optimal policy involves monitoring of search effort and benefit sanctions if observed search is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321736
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Improving incentives in unemployment insurance : a review of recent research
Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - 2003
that the case for imposing a penalty on less active job search is fairly solid. A growing number of empirical studies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507749