This paper examines the effects of unemployment insurance on escape rates from unemployment using data from the 1998 … Displaced Worker Survey. Transitions from unemployment to employment are modeled using a flexible representation of the baseline … hazard function and allowing for discrete changes through time in the effects of unemployment insurance benefits, as well as …

unemployment. Labor market regulations, unemployment benefits, and high levels of public consumption in many European countries …

keine Arbeitslosenversicherung im herkömmlichen Sinne: Die Einkommenssicherung bei Arbeitslosigkeit erfolgt durch die …Im Rahmen eines Vergleichs der amerikanischen und britischen Systeme der Arbeitslosenversicherung wird gezeigt, daß das … Arbeitslosenversicherung und der Höhe der Freisetzung von Arbeitskräften aufweist ("experience rating"). Im Vereinigten Königreich gibt es …

Young adults entering the labor force typically have little access to unemployment insurance or other formal insurance …

This paper investigates long-term returns from unemployment compensation, exploiting variation from the UK JSA reform … post-unemployment wages. I test these ideas on longitudinal data from Social Security records (LLMDB). Using a difference … in differences approach, I find that individuals who start an unemployment spell soon after JSA introduction, as opposed …

model; specifically, reservation wage and transition/duration elasticities. The informational requirements of this approach … impact of unemployment benefit rules and measures increasing the arrival rate of job offers are concerned. These key …

/ Altman, Grubel, Orzag/Snower - which are presented and discussed. It turns out that a true unemployment insurance would be … against such a solution. For example, insurability is often denied on the ground that an unemployment insurance would be too …