Unemployment Insurance Generosity and Aggregate Employment

Optimal Unemployment Insurance and Employment History

In existing unemployment insurance programmes, it is standard to condition eligibility on the previous employment record of unemployed workers. The purpose of this article is to study conditions under which the efficient contract exhibits these properties. In order to do so, we characterize the optimal unemployment insurance contract in asymmetric information environments in which workers exper...

Aggregate and Disaggregated Aspects of Employment and Unemployment

This paper reviews ways in which cyclical, institutional, and structural determinants of the levels and composition of employment and unemployment can be studied in light of theoretical interactions between shocks and institutions, and of different empirical experiences across advanced economies. It adapts and extends Bertola (2000), offering a non-technical summary of the literature reviewed b...

Unemployment Insurance and Emergency Employment Programs in La

Do interactions between unemployment insurance and sickness insurance affect transition to employment

Previous research suggests that there are substantial interactions between the unemployment insurance (UI) and the sickness insurance (SI) in Sweden. Moral hazard arises in the interplay between these two social insurance systems, since by reporting sick an unemployed person can postpone the UI expiration date and sometimes also receive considerably higher benefits. This paper examines whether ...

Unemployment Insurance and Unemployment Spells

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