Unemployment Insurance Taxes and Labor Demand: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Administrative Data

Labor Market Cycles and Unemployment Insurance Eligibility

If entitlement to UI bene…ts must be earned with employment, generous UI is an additional bene…t to an employment relationship, so it promotes job creation. If individuals are risk neutral, UI is fairly priced, and the UI system prevents moralhazard unemployed workers, the generosity of UI has no e¤ect on unemployment. As with Ricardian Equivalence, this result should be useful to pinpoint the ...

Unemployment Insurance and the Labor Market

The existing literature assumes that unemployment insurance (UI) a↵ects the labor market through the job finding rate of eligible workers. I argue that this focus is too narrow. I show evidence for UI e↵ects through three other margins: (i) search externalities; (ii) takeup of other welfare state programs; and (iii) job separations. This suggests that the analysis of optimal UI should take a mo...

Demand for Multi-Year Insurance: Experimental Evidence

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Unemployment and the Structure of Labor Demand

One of the most inaonc~lusive debates in the history of American academic economics is the debate over the impact of structural shifts in the economy on employment conditions. Beginning in the late 1950’s Charles Killingsworth and others argued that rising unemployment rates were in part due to structural shifts in the economy.1 Eckstein, Heller, Knowles, Kalachek, and Gordon, among others, voc...

Evidence from Swedish unemployment insurance reforms