pension payments. Therefore, such accounts make unemployment less attractive, intensify job search, and raise employment. In … bargaining creates additional impediments for the positive employment consequences of UISAs …Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts (UISAs) entitle workers to unemployment benefits at the expense of future …

Economists often expect unemployment insurance (UI) benefits to elevate unemployment rates because recipients may … choose to remain unemployed in order to continue receiving benefits, instead of accepting a job or dropping out of the labor … different states - to investigate the influence of program parameters in the UI system on monthly transition rates of unemployed …

system, people are in effect rewarded for being unemployed (through the unemployment benefits) and penalized for being …We explore the implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by unemployment accounts (UA). Under … the UA system, employed people would be required to make ongoing contributions to their unemployment accounts, and the …

. This critical value decreases with unemployment benefits and increases with workers' risk aversion. We also show that in … some countries the benefits for long-term unemployed are so low that workers would probably prefer that the minimum wage …