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Intergenerational Influences on the Receipt of Unemployment Insurance in Canada and Sweden
Corak, Miles; Gustafsson, Björn; Österberg, Torun - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
The objective of this paper is to examine the extent to which an individual’s use of unemployment insurance (UI) as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763677
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Unemployment care in Weimar Germany - international perspective
Rákosník, Jakub - In: Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2009 (2009) 1, pp. 78-88
The article deals with the German obligatory unemployment insurance (so-called AVAVG, enacted in 1927) in the interwar …-tests and financed from taxes. The prospective unemployment rate was underestimated. Because of this fact the insurance scheme …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079051
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Living Standards and Incentives in Transition: the Implications of Unemployment Insurance Exhaustion in Hungary
Micklewright, John; Nagy, Gyula - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
The single most likely way to leave the unemployment insurance (UI) register in Hungary is not by getting a job but by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497937
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Front-loading the Payment of Unemployment Benefits
Lalé, Etienne - School of Economics, Finance and Management, University … - 2014
discuss robustness to changing the generosity, duration and eligibility of unemployment insurance. …We study the effects of front-loading the payment of unemployment benefits in general equilibrium economies with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096342
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Front-loading the Payment of Unemployment Benefits
Lalé, Etienne - School of Economics, Finance and Management, University … - 2014
We study the effects of front-loading the payment of unemployment benefits in an equilibrium matching framework with … precautionary savings. Front-loading the benefit system trades off fewer means to smooth consumption at long unemployment durations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011194223
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Unemployment insurance in the presence of an informal
Bardey, David; Jaramillo, Fermando; Pena, Ximena - UNIVERSIDAD DEL ROSARIO - 2013
Abstract: We study the effect of UI benefits in a typical developing country where the informal sector is sizeable and persistent. In a partial equilibrium environment, ruling out the macroeconomic consequences of UI benefits, we characterize the stationary equilibrium of an economy where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010763250
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Unemployment Insurance in the Presence of an Informal Sector
Bardey, David; Jaramillo, Fernando; Peña, Ximena - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2013
We study the effect of UI benefits in a typical developing country where the informal sector is sizeable and persistent. In a partial equilibrium environment we characterize the stationary equilibrium of an economy where policyholders may be employed in the formal sector, short-run unemployed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010763883
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Aid to Jobless Workers in Florida in the Face of the Great Recession: The Interaction of Unemployment Insurance and the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program
Heflin, Colleen M.; Mueser, Peter R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
people in January 2013 – or 15.1 percent of all Americans – and the Unemployment Insurance Program (UI), which more than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884246
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Use of Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program Benefits by Unemployment Insurance Applicants in Michigan during the Great Recession
O'Leary, Christopher J.; Kline, Ken - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2014
-state unemployment insurance (UI) program experienced dramatic increases in participation. Using Michigan program administrative data on … eligibility requirements. Unemployment insurance applicants with insufficient wage credits or job separations because of quitting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850006
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Unemployment insurance/severance payments and informality in developing countries
Bardey, David; Jaramillo, Fernando - Condorcet Center for Political Economy, Centre de … - 2011
We analyze whether the introduction or an increase of unemployment insurance (UI hereafter) benefits in developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969031