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Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts in Latin America: Overview and Assessment [PDF]

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The unemployment protection systems that exist in most Latin American economies are generally considered inadequate in terms of providing insurance to workers.
Ferrer, Ana, Riddell, W. Craig
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Optimal Unemployment Insurance Over the Business Cycle [PDF]

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This paper characterizes optimal unemployment insurance (UI) over the business cycle using a model of equilibrium unemployment in which jobs are rationed in recession.
Pascal Michaillat   +2 more
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Work Share Program

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Unemployment Insurance with Hidden Savings

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This paper studies the design of unemployment insurance when neither the searching effort nor the savings of an unemployed agent can be monitored. If the principal could monitor the savings, the optimal policy would leave the agent savings-constrained ...
Zhang, Yuzhe, Mitchell, Matthew
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Spousal Labor Supply as Insurance: Does Unemployment Insurance Crowd Outthe Added Worker Effect? [PDF]

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We consider the role of spousal labor supply as insurance against spells of unemployment. Standard theory suggests that women should work more when their husbands are out of work (the Added Worker Effect or AWE), but there has been little empirical ...
Julie Berry Cullen, Jonathan Gruber
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Optimal Unemployment Insurance in a Matching Equilibrium [PDF]

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This paper considers the optimal design of unemployment insurance (UI) within an equilibrium matching framework when wages are determined by strategic bargaining.
Adrian Masters, Melvyn Coles
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Improving Incentives in Unemployment Insurance: A Review of Recent Research [PDF]

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This paper provides a review of the recent literature on how incentives in unemployment insurance (UI) can be improved. We are particularly concerned with three instruments, viz.
Holmlund, Bertil, Fredriksson, Peter
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Reemployment Incentives for Unemployment Insurance Beneficiaries: Results from the Washington Reemployment Bonus Experiment

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Unemployment insurance is intended to reduce hardship by providing labor force members with partial wage replacement during periods of involuntary unemployment.
Kenneth J. Kline   +2 more
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