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 …

We consider an economy characterised by involuntary unemployment among low skilled workers, and investigate the … implications for employment and income of welfare schemes often advocated as less distortionary. We show that reducing unemployment … deterioration. To support employment, we suggest that systems grounded in contribution-based unemployment insurance schemes are to …

/ 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 …

"This paper studies the effect of unemployment benefits on the unemployment and subsequent employment duration using … unemployment and subsequent employment duration for the recipients is statistically significant for the short-term unemployed in … a two-state mixed proportional hazard model allowing for flexible duration dependence and state specific unobserved …