This paper provides a simple, yet robust framework to evaluate the time profile of benefits
paid during an unemployment spell. We derive sufficient-statistics formulae capturing the …

In this article we investigate the disincentive effects of shortening the potential duration of
unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. We identify these disincentive effects by exploiting …

We study how the marginal welfare gain from increasing the unemployment insurance (UI)
benefit level varies over the business cycle. We do this by estimating how the moral hazard …

This paper studies how changes in the two key parameters of unemployment insurance—
the benefit replacement rate (RR) and the potential benefit duration (PBD)—affect the …

We use a flexible hazard rate model with unrestricted spell duration and calendar time
effects to analyse a dataset including all Norwegian unemployment spells during the 1990s …

The primary purpose of unemployment insurance (UI) is no doubt to insure individuals
against loss of wage income. However, UI is commonly believed to adversely affect job …

We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit
amount on unemployment insurance spells based on administrative data from the state of …

By Rafael Lalive* and Phillip B. Levine (2000); Lalive and Josef Zweimüller (2004); Jan C.
van Ours and Milan Vodopivec (2006b); and Card, Raj Chetty, and Andrea Weber (2006) …

Putting a limit on the duration of unemployment benefits tends to introduce a “spike” in the
job finding rate shortly before benefits are exhausted. Current theories explain this spike …

The majority of papers analyzing the employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI)
benefit durations focus on the duration of the first unemployment spell. In this paper, we …