'While much empirical research has been done on the labour market consequences of unemployment benefits, there is remarkably little evidence on the forces determining benefits. The paper presents a simple model where workers desire insurance against the possibility of unemployment and unemployment benefits increase the unemployment rate. We then conduct, what we believe, is one of the first empirical analyses of the determinants of the parameters of the unemployment benefit system. Using OECD data for 1971-1989, controlling for year and country fixed effects, and controlling for the political colour of the government, we find evidence suggesting that benefits fall when the unemployment rate is high. This is consistent with the tax-effect de...
This paper analysed the OECD data on employment protection for 23 OECD countries over the time span ...
Viewing unemployment insurance (UI) as a search subsidy to workers, job search models predict that u...
This paper studies how changes in the two key parameters of unemployment insurance-the benefit repla...
"Unemployment benefits, benefit duration, base period and qualifying period are constituent paramete...
In the labor markets, there exist simultaneously both, unemployed workers and vacant jobs. Due to th...
"Job search models offer two complementary predictions about the effects of unemployment benefits on...
'Economic job search theory offers two complementary predictions about the effects of unemployment b...
'The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent ye...
This thesis assesses the impact of taxes and unemployment benefits on the unem- ployment rates. The ...
'The effects of the German unemployment compensation system on the duration of unemployment are anal...
"Dieses Papier wertet den Einfluss von weitreichenden Veränderungen in der Bezugsdauer der Arbeitslo...
'This paper studies the reservation wages of unemployed persons and the wages offered them in German...
This paper provides an overview of the key issues relating to taxation, public policy and the dynami...
Gegenstand der Analyse sind die Auswirkungen der Arbeitslosenversicherung in Ungarn auf den Zeitraum...
Germany is country characterized by a high coverage of collective agreements and by high and persist...
This paper analysed the OECD data on employment protection for 23 OECD countries over the time span ...
Viewing unemployment insurance (UI) as a search subsidy to workers, job search models predict that u...
This paper studies how changes in the two key parameters of unemployment insurance-the benefit repla...
"Unemployment benefits, benefit duration, base period and qualifying period are constituent paramete...
In the labor markets, there exist simultaneously both, unemployed workers and vacant jobs. Due to th...
"Job search models offer two complementary predictions about the effects of unemployment benefits on...
'Economic job search theory offers two complementary predictions about the effects of unemployment b...
'The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent ye...
This thesis assesses the impact of taxes and unemployment benefits on the unem- ployment rates. The ...
'The effects of the German unemployment compensation system on the duration of unemployment are anal...
"Dieses Papier wertet den Einfluss von weitreichenden Veränderungen in der Bezugsdauer der Arbeitslo...
'This paper studies the reservation wages of unemployed persons and the wages offered them in German...
This paper provides an overview of the key issues relating to taxation, public policy and the dynami...
Gegenstand der Analyse sind die Auswirkungen der Arbeitslosenversicherung in Ungarn auf den Zeitraum...
Germany is country characterized by a high coverage of collective agreements and by high and persist...
This paper analysed the OECD data on employment protection for 23 OECD countries over the time span ...
Viewing unemployment insurance (UI) as a search subsidy to workers, job search models predict that u...
This paper studies how changes in the two key parameters of unemployment insurance-the benefit repla...