Carling, Kenneth; Holmlund, Bertil; Vejsiu, Altin - 2000
In June 1995, the Swedish parliament decided to cut the replacement rate in unemployment insurance from 80 % to 75 %, a … change that took effect on January 1, 1996. This paper examines how this change affected job finding rates among unemployed … fraction of the unemployed was affected by the reduction in replacement rates. We compare the evolution of job finding rates …