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Filges, Trine, Lars Pico Geerdsen, Anne-Sofie Due Knudsen, and Anne-Marie Klint Jørgensen. "Unemployment Benefit Exhaustion." Research on Social Work Practice 25, no. 1 (April 15, 2014): 21–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049731514529830.

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Norris, Keith. "Unemployment and the Structure of Unemployment Benefits." Economic and Labour Relations Review 5, no. 1 (June 1994): 38–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/103530469400500105.

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Analysis suggests that the higher the replacement ratio, that is the level of unemployment benefit relative to average earnings, the higher the level of unemployment is likely to be. This effect comes about in two main ways. The replacement ratio will influence both the rate of inflow into unemployment and the period for which people remain unemployed. The empirical evidence supports these propositions although the sensitivity of unemployment to changes in the replacement ratio is fairly weak. In the light of equity considerations reducing unemployment benefits as a policy weapon to counteract unemployment is thus not a viable option. Changing the rules relating to part-time earnings and unemployment benefit however could reduce long-term unemployment.

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Lauringson, Anne. "Disincentive effects of unemployment insurance benefits: maximum benefit duration versus benefit level." Baltic Journal of Economics 11, no. 1 (March 2011): 25–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1406099x.2011.10840489.

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Bieszk-Stolorz, Beata, and Iwona Markowicz. "Influence of unemployment benefit on duration of registered unemployment spells." Equilibrium 10, no. 3 (September 30, 2015): 167. http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/equil.2015.031.

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The purpose of the article is to present the analysis of the influence of unemployment benefit on the duration of registered unemployment spells. The authors made a hypothesis that the very fact of receiving the benefit extends the job seeking time and determines the intensity of unemployment exit. The power of this influence varies depending on a subgroup the unemployed person belongs to. The study was conducted on the basis of data from the Poviat Labour Office in Sulecin. The data were collected as a part of the European Union project implementation. The analysis covered two periods of time – before and after Poland’s accession to the European Union and the subsequent changes in legal regulations concerning unemployment benefits. The authors observed separate cohorts of the unemployed registered in 2001 and 2005. The closing dates of the observations were: the end of 2003 and 2007, respectively. Also, the authors examined whether the EU projects implemented after 2004 had an effect on the length of the unemployment spells as well as on the intensity of the unemployment exit. The study confirmed the research hypotheses. The fact of claiming the unemployment benefit prolonged the unemployment spells in both periods of observation. The loss of the right to the benefit increased the probability of de-registration in each sub-group.

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STRANDH, MATTIAS. "State Intervention and Mental Well-being Among the Unemployed." Journal of Social Policy 30, no. 1 (January 2001): 57–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279400006176.

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Although the relationship between unemployment and poor mental well-being has long been an area of interest within behavioural science, the role of state intervention in the unemployment situation has not been thoroughly investigated. This article investigates how unemployment benefit systems and active labour market policy measures affect mental well-being among the unemployed in Sweden. The study uses a longitudinal and nationally representative survey of 3,500 unemployed Swedes. Three different types of active labour market policy measures involving the unemployed were studied, ‘activation’, ‘vocational training’ and ‘work-place participation’ measures. Of these only involvement in ‘workplace participation’ was found to have a clearly positive effect on mental well-being among those participating. Of the two Swedish unemployment benefit systems, the more generous income replacement Unemployment Benefits and the less generous flat rate Cash Unemployment Benefits, only access to income replacement Unemployment Benefits was found to mediate the mental well-being impact of unemployment. The positive effect of access to income replacement Unemployment Benefits was further accentuated when unemployment was prolonged. Those with access to this benefit system seemed to suffer no further deterioration of mental well-being, while the mental well-being of the rest of the unemployed further deteriorated.

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Sidorov, V. N. "ILLEGAL RECEIPT OF UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT. GAPS IN THE LEGISLATION." Juridical Analytical Journal 15, no. 1 (April 10, 2020): 54–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.18287/1810-4088-2020-15-1-54-58.

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In the paper the problems of illegal receipt of unemployment benefit are analyzed. The author analyzes the main reasons of illegal receipt of unemployment benefit, gaps in legislation as well as proposed solutions to this problem. It raises issues of law enforcement practice to return the illegally obtained unemployment benefits.

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Lalive, Rafael, and Josef Zweimüller. "Benefit entitlement and unemployment duration." Journal of Public Economics 88, no. 12 (December 2004): 2587–616. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2003.10.002.

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Lindner, Attila, and Balázs Reizer. "Front-Loading the Unemployment Benefit: An Empirical Assessment." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 12, no. 3 (July 1, 2020): 140–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/app.20180138.

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We estimate the effect of front-loading unemployment benefit payments on nonemployment duration and reemployment wages. Exploiting a sharp change in the path of benefits for those who claimed unemployment benefits after November 1, 2005 in Hungary, we show that nonemployment duration fell by two weeks, while reemployment wages rose by 1.4 percent as a result of front-loading. We show that these behavioral responses were large enough to offset the mechanical cost increase of the unemployment insurance. We argue that our results indicate that benefit front-loading was a Pareto improving policy reform as both unemployed and employed workers were made better off. (JEL D91, J31, J64, J65)

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Arni, Patrick, Rafael Lalive, and Jan C. Van Ours. "HOW EFFECTIVE ARE UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT SANCTIONS? LOOKING BEYOND UNEMPLOYMENT EXIT." Journal of Applied Econometrics 28, no. 7 (June 20, 2012): 1153–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jae.2289.

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Koenig, Felix, Barbara Petrongolo, John Van Reenen, and Nitika Bagaria. "Can Helping the Sick Hurt the Able? Incentives, Information and Disruption in a Welfare Reform." Economic Journal 129, no. 624 (June 28, 2019): 3189–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ej/uez033.

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Abstract The UK Jobcentre Plus reform sharpened bureaucratic incentives to help disability benefit recipients (relative to unemployment insurance recipients) into jobs. In the long run, the policy raised exits off diasability benefits by 10% and left unemployment outflows roughly unchanged, consistent with (i) beneficial effects of reorganising welfare offices for both groups, and (ii) a shift in bureaucrats' efforts towards getting disability benefit recipients into jobs relative to those on unemployment benefit. The policy accounted for about 30% of the decline in the aggregate disability rolls between 2003 and 2008. In the short run, however, we detect a reduction in unemployment exits and no effect on disability exits, suggesting important initial disruption effects from the big reorganisation. This highlights the difficulty of welfare reform as policymakers may focus on the short-run political costs rather than the long-run economic benefits.

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Lindellee, Jayeon. "Distributive Consequences of Risk Privatization: The Case of the Swedish Unemployment Insurance System." Zeitschrift für Sozialreform 66, no. 3 (September 1, 2020): 207–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zsr-2020-0010.

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Abstract The public unemployment insurance program in Sweden has retrenched in terms of its benefit generosity in the last three decades. As a response to this trend, in which an ever-smaller proportion of the previous income of unemployed persons is compensated by public unemployment insurance benefit, complementary income insurance schemes provided by unions have expanded rapidly in the last 15 years, currently covering one half of the working population. What does this change mean for people who need income protection upon unemployment and are more likely to find themselves unemployed or underemployed? By analyzing survey-based benefit recipiency data among retail workers who were unemployed in 2014, this article explores the outcomes of the multi-pillarized unemployment benefit provision system in Sweden. While public unemployment insurance benefit does not fully compensate for the income loss for the majority of retail workers, the promise of a complementary income insurance scheme seems to be illusory for many individuals as they repeatedly oscillate between precarious work and benefits, accompanied by the burden of navigating a complex system.

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Yuvalı, Ertuğrul, and Nihan Gizem Kantarcı. "Unemployment Insurance for Labour Migrants according to the European Court of Justice." Göç Dergisi 9, no. 3 (November 30, 2022): 329–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.33182/gd.v9i3.857.

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In the study, the decisions of the European Court of Justice regarding the unemployment insurance of migrant workers were examined. In decisions; It has been stated that migrating to benefit from unemployment insurance cannot be interpreted against the worker. It has been stated that immigrating from the country of citizenship to another country and residing there will not prevent him from receiving unemployment benefits. A migrant worker must be insured for a certain period of time to benefit from unemployment insurance. Each country regulates this period of employment with its own domestic laws. The length of service in different member states of the European Union, excluding the domestic law rules in the countries of employment, by the Court of Justice, It has been determined that it has been interpreted that it can be combined to benefit from unemployment insurance.

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O’Leary, Christopher J., William E. Spriggs, and Stephen A. Wandner. "Equity in Unemployment Insurance Benefit Access." AEA Papers and Proceedings 112 (May 1, 2022): 91–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/pandp.20221010.

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We investigate the uneven pattern of access to unemployment insurance (UI) by age, gender, race, and ethnicity across the United States. We present results from a descriptive analysis using publicly available data reported by states over time on rates of UI recipiency and characteristics of UI beneficiaries. Recipiency measures the proportion of all unemployed who are receiving UI benefits. We find suggestive evidence that UI recipiency shares are lower than unemployment shares for females, youth, and Blacks. We offer program reforms that could be adopted by all states and required by the federal government to improve UI recipiency rates.

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Schmitt, John, and Jonathan Wadsworth. "UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT LEVELS AND SEARCH ACTIVITY." Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 55, no. 1 (May 1, 2009): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0084.1993.mp55001001.x.

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Pennings, Frans. "The discussion on the revision of the coordination rules of unemployment benefits – a battlefield between East and West." European Journal of Social Security 22, no. 2 (May 15, 2020): 148–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1388262720924862.

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Unemployment benefits are a special type of benefit for coordination purposes since Member States exporting benefits tend to fear that supervision of their benefit recipients in the host State will not be satisfactory. For this reason, several complicated rules have been made, which are disadvantageous for the benefit recipients living in a country with low unemployment benefits who last worked in a country with higher benefits. The rules are also disadvantageous for countries with many outgoing frontier workers. Although the proposal for revising the Regulation includes new rules to address these problems, the large differences in interests between Member States make it difficult to reach a compromise.

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Budd, John W., and Brian P. McCall. "The Effect of Unions on the Receipt of Unemployment Insurance Benefits." ILR Review 50, no. 3 (April 1997): 478–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001979399705000306.

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Using National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data for 1979–91, the authors analyze the effect of union representation on the likelihood that individuals eligible for unemployment insurance (UI) benefits actually received those benefits. They find that unions had no statistically significant effect on the probability of benefit receipt among white-collar workers, but among eligible blue-collar workers, those who were laid off from union jobs were roughly 23% more likely than comparable nonunion workers to receive UI benefits. Although the analysis does not identify the reasons for this difference, two factors it appears to rule out as determinants are union-negotiated supplemental unemployment benefit plans and differences between union and nonunion workers in expected unemployment duration.

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Enache, Cosmin. "Adverse Incentive Effects of the Unemployment Benefit Level in Romania." Annals of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University - Economics 60, no. 1 (July 1, 2013): 54–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/aicue-2013-0006.

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Abstract This paper proposes an empirical analysis of the effects of unemployment benefit on unemployment in Romania. First, the existence of a long-run equilibrium relation between the two variables was checked using single-equation cointegration tests. The results showed that such a relation does not exist. Next, in order to evaluate the short-term effects of unemployment benefit on unemployment level, a VAR analysis was employed. Impulse response functions analysis showed that the number of persons registered as unemployed is expecting to rise as the value of monthly unemployment benefit is increasing. However, the variance decomposition analysis pointed out that only a small part (under 5%) of unemployment short-term dynamics could be explained by potential shocks in the unemployment benefit level.

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Lubyova, Martina, and Jan van Ours. "Unemployment dynamics and the restructuring of the Slovak unemployment benefit system." European Economic Review 41, no. 3-5 (April 1997): 925–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0014-2921(97)00050-0.

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Tuit, Sander, and Jan C. van Ours. "How changes in unemployment benefit duration affect the inflow into unemployment." Economics Letters 109, no. 2 (November 2010): 105–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2010.08.013.

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Sabar, Hariyadi, Chaeruniza Fitriyani, Dino Cahyadi, and Dhea Amelia. "Pengembangan Unemployment Benefit dalam Jaminan Sosial Bidang Ketenagakerjaan di Indonesia." Bappenas Working Papers 5, no. 3 (November 30, 2022): 334–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.47266/bwp.v5i3.120.

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Program jaminan kehilangan pekerjaan (unemployment benefit) diperlukan untuk meminimalkan dampak dari krisis ekonomi di masa mendatang dan mengantisipasi perubahan struktur pekerjaan akibat percepatan laju otomatisasi. Unemployment benefit adalah sebuah mekanisme untuk menjaga tingkat konsumsi pekerja ketika sedang tidak bekerja dengan tujuan untuk menjaga taraf hidup sehingga tercipta stabilitas perekonomian makro. Fokus kajian ini adalah menentukan skema unemployment benefit yang dinilai tepat untuk diterapkan di Indonesia. Kajian ini mengelompokkan tiga skema unemployment benefit yaitu: (1) unemployment insurance atau UI; (2) unemployment assistance atau UA; dan (3) unemployment insurance saving account (UISA), untuk dijadikan sebagai pilihan dalam menentukan skema terbaik. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA) dengan melihat variabel-variabel yang dikelompokkan menjadi empat kelompok yaitu kontingensi, metode perlindungan, durasi, dan cakupan. Penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa Unemployment Insurance merupakan skema yang paling tepat untuk diterapkan di Indonesia. Skema UI dinilai unggul dalam kategori kontingensi, metode perlindungan, dan durasi manfaat.

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Bennett, Patrick, and Amine Ouazad. "Job Displacement, Unemployment, and Crime: Evidence from Danish Microdata and Reforms." Journal of the European Economic Association 18, no. 5 (October 18, 2019): 2182–220. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvz054.

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Abstract This paper estimates the individual impact of a worker’s job loss on his/her criminal activity. Using a matched employer–employee longitudinal data set on unemployment, crime, and taxes for all residents in Denmark, the paper builds each worker’s timeline of job separation, unemployment, and crime. The paper focuses on displaced workers: high-tenure workers who lose employment during a mass-layoff event at any point between 1990 and 1994 (inclusive). Controlling for municipality- and time-specific confounders identifies the individual impact separately from the aggregate impact of the unemployment rate on crime. Placebo tests display no evidence of trends in crime prior to worker separation. Using Denmark’s introduction of the Act on an Active Labor Market at the end of 1993, we estimate the impacts of activation and of a reduction in benefit duration on crime: crime is lower during active benefits than during passive benefits and spikes at the end of benefit eligibility. We use policy-induced shifts in the kink formula relating prior earnings to unemployment benefits to estimate the separate impacts of labor income and unemployment benefits on crime: the results suggest that unemployment benefits do not significantly offset the impact of labor income losses on crime.

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Holzner, C., V. Meier, and M. Werding. "Time Limits in a Two-tier Unemployment Benefit Scheme under Involuntary Unemployment." CESifo Economic Studies 56, no. 2 (December 29, 2009): 251–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cesifo/ifp027.

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Howell, D. R., and M. Rehm. "Unemployment compensation and high European unemployment: a reassessment with new benefit indicators." Oxford Review of Economic Policy 25, no. 1 (March 1, 2009): 60–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grp010.

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Maani, Sholeh A. "Post‐unemployment wages, the probability of re‐employment, and the unemployment benefit." New Zealand Economic Papers 27, no. 1 (June 1993): 35–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00779959309544200.

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Cylus, Jonathan, M. Maria Glymour, and Mauricio Avendano. "Health Effects of Unemployment Benefit Program Generosity." American Journal of Public Health 105, no. 2 (February 2015): 317–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2014.302253.

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Gunes, Volkan, and Arzu Hacioglu. "The requirements for entitlement to unemployment benefit." Pressacademia 5, no. 4 (December 30, 2018): 262–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.17261/pressacademia.2018.1010.

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Nakajima, Makoto. "A quantitative analysis of unemployment benefit extensions." Journal of Monetary Economics 59, no. 7 (November 2012): 686–702. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2012.09.005.

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Browning, Martin, and Thomas F. Crossley. "Unemployment insurance benefit levels and consumption changes." Journal of Public Economics 80, no. 1 (April 2001): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0047-2727(00)00084-0.

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Andersen, Torben M., Mark Strøm Kristoffersen, and Michael Svarer. "Benefit reentitlement conditions in unemployment insurance schemes." Labour Economics 52 (June 2018): 27–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2018.03.001.

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Alba, Alfonso, Jose Maria Arranz, and Fernando Muñoz-Bullón. "Re-employment probabilities of unemployment benefit recipients." Applied Economics 44, no. 28 (October 2012): 3645–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2011.579067.

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Buck, Trevor. "Unemployment Benefit: The “Full-Extent Normal Rule”." Journal of Social Welfare Law 9, no. 1 (January 1987): 23–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09649068708412159.

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Jepsen, Maria, and Danièle Meulders. "Gender inequalities in European unemployment benefit systems." International Social Security Review 50, no. 4 (October 1997): 43–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-246x.1997.tb01083.x.

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Pallage, Stéphane, Lyle Scruggs, and Christian Zimmermann. "Measuring Unemployment Insurance Generosity." Political Analysis 21, no. 4 (2013): 524–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pan/mpt011.

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Unemployment insurance policies are multidimensional objects, with variable waiting periods, eligibility duration, benefit levels, and asset tests, making intertemporal or international comparisons very difficult. Furthermore, labor market conditions, such as the likelihood and duration of unemployment, matter when assessing the generosity of different policies. In this article, we develop a new methodology to measure the generosity of unemployment insurance programs with a single metric. We build a first model with all characteristics of the complex unemployment insurance policy. Our model features heterogeneous agents that are liquidity constrained but can self-insure. We then build a second model, similar in all aspects but one: the unemployment insurance policy is one-dimensional (no waiting periods, eligibility limits, or asset tests, but constant benefits). We then determine which level of benefits in this second model makes society indifferent between both policies. We apply this measurement strategy to the unemployment insurance program of the United Kingdom.

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Farber, Henry S., Jesse Rothstein, and Robert G. Valletta. "The Effect of Extended Unemployment Insurance Benefits: Evidence from the 2012–2013 Phase-Out." American Economic Review 105, no. 5 (May 1, 2015): 171–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.p20151088.

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Unemployment Insurance benefit durations were extended during the Great Recession, reaching 99 weeks for most recipients. The extensions were rolled back and eventually terminated by the end of 2013. Using matched CPS data from 2008-2014, we estimate the effect of extended benefits on unemployment exits separately during the earlier period of benefit expansion and the later period of rollback. In both periods, we find little or no effect on job-finding but a reduction in labor force exits due to benefit availability. We estimate that the rollbacks reduced the labor force participation rate by about 0.1 percentage point in early 2014.

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Kyyrä, Tomi, and Hanna Pesola. "The effects of unemployment benefit duration: Evidence from residual benefit duration." Labour Economics 65 (August 2020): 101859. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101859.

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Rehm, Philipp. "Social Policy by Popular Demand." World Politics 63, no. 2 (April 2011): 271–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0043887111000037.

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Why are unemployment benefits more generous in some countries? This article argues that citizens trade off the redistributive and insuring effect of social insurance. As a result, the distribution of risk in a society has important consequences via popular demand for social policy-making. At the microlevel, the article shows that, in addition to income, the risk of unemployment is a key predictor of individual-level preferences for unemployment benefits. Based on the microlevel findings, the article argues that at the macrolevel the homogeneity of the risk pool is an important determinant of benefit generosity: the more equally unemployment risk is distributed, the higher unemployment replacement rates are. Empirical testing at both levels finds support for this account of social policy by popular demand.

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Coombs, Kyle, Arindrajit Dube, Calvin Jahnke, Raymond Kluender, Suresh Naidu, and Michael Stepner. "Early Withdrawal of Pandemic Unemployment Insurance: Effects on Employment and Earnings." AEA Papers and Proceedings 112 (May 1, 2022): 85–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/pandp.20221009.

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We examine the effects of the sudden withdrawal of expanded pandemic unemployment benefits in June 2021 using anonymized bank transaction data for 16,253 individuals receiving unemployment insurance (UI) in April 2021. Comparing the difference-in-differences between states withdrawing and retaining expanded UI, we find that UI receipt falls 36.3 p.p., while employment rises by only 6.8 p.p. by early September. Average cumulative UI benefits fall by $2,529, while average cumulative earnings increase by only $292. Heterogeneity by unemployment duration implies that these effects are primarily driven by extensive margin expiration of benefits rather than by intensive margin reductions in the benefit level.

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Ahn, Namkee, and Arantza Ugidos-Olazabal. "DURATION OF UNEMPLOYMENT IN SPAIN: RELATIVE EFFECTS OF UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT AND FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS." Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 57, no. 2 (May 1, 2009): 249–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0084.1995.mp57002006.x.

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HOHMEYER, KATRIN, and TORSTEN LIETZMANN. "Persistence of Welfare Receipt and Unemployment in Germany: Determinants and Duration Dependence." Journal of Social Policy 49, no. 2 (May 21, 2019): 299–322. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279419000242.

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AbstractAlthough the German economy managed the last economic recession comparatively well, it suffers from high and stagnating long-term unemployment and benefit receipt. This article is the first to study the duration and determinants of welfare benefit (“unemployment benefit II”) receipt in Germany as a whole, with special attention on duration dependence. The recipients of the means-tested household benefit are not necessarily registered as unemployed, but are, for example, employed with insufficient earnings, in training measures or economically inactive. Due to the heterogeneous situations of welfare recipients, separately studying welfare receipt and unemployment is necessary. By using exceptionally rich administrative data on a 1% random sample of welfare recipients from between 2005 and 2014, we estimate discrete-time hazard rate models that control for unobserved heterogeneity. The first benefit and unemployment episodes for first welfare recipients between 2006 and 2012 (n = 26,163) are traced monthly until 31 December 2014. Recipients leave unemployment more quickly than welfare. Sociodemographic characteristics, labour market resources and the duration seem to affect both processes. Household composition is less important for leaving unemployment than for leaving welfare. Overall, the results indicate that leaving unemployment and leaving welfare receipt are two different processes that need distinct policies.

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Laporšek, Suzana, Milan Vodopivec, and Matija Vodopivec. "Activation programs for unemployment benefit recipients in Slovenia." Review of Economic Perspectives 22, no. 1 (June 1, 2022): 75–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/revecp-2022-0004.

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Abstract Activation of the unemployed has been an important topic among policymakers during the last decades. This paper reviews the current measures in Slovenia in the area of activation of unemployment benefit recipients and it compares its formal requirements related to activation against the international background. The paper focuses on five activation areas: adjustment of unemployment benefit eligibility, improving employment services, participation in active labour market policies, monitoring and sanctions. The review lists several recommendations Slovenia should apply to activate unemployment benefit recipients, including introducing more demanding job search requirements and increased monitoring of the compliance with these requirements, introducing compulsory participation in active labour market programs, checking the consistency and effectiveness of the current profiling system, and strengthening the ex-ante effect of sanctions.

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Shimer, Robert, and Iván Werning. "Liquidity and Insurance for the Unemployed." American Economic Review 98, no. 5 (November 1, 2008): 1922–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.98.5.1922.

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We study unemployment insurance for workers who sequentially sample job opportunities. We focus on the optimal timing of benefits and the desirability of allowing borrowing and saving. When workers have constant absolute risk aversion, a simple policy is optimal: a constant benefit during unemployment, a constant tax during employment, and free access to a riskless asset. With constant relative risk aversion, optimal policy involves nearly constant benefits; more elaborate policies offer minuscule welfare gains. We highlight two distinct policy roles: ensuring workers have sufficient liquidity to smooth their consumption; and providing unemployment subsidies to insure against uncertain spell duration. (JEL J65)

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Inderbitzin, Lukas, Stefan Staubli, and Josef Zweimüller. "Extended Unemployment Benefits and Early Retirement: Program Complementarity and Program Substitution." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 8, no. 1 (February 1, 2016): 253–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/pol.20130315.

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We explore how extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits for older workers affect early retirement and welfare. We argue that extending UI benefits generates program complementarity (more labor market exits and disability benefit take-up in the future) and program substitution (less disability benefit take-up in the present). Exploiting a policy change in Austria, which extended UI benefits to 4 years, we find program complementarity effects for workers aged 50+ and program substitution effects for workers aged 55+. We apply the Baily-Chetty formula for optimal UI to account for complementarity and substitution, showing that UI benefits for older workers were too generous. (JEL J14, J22, J26, J65)

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Gruber, Jonathan. "The Wealth of the Unemployed." ILR Review 55, no. 1 (October 2001): 79–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001979390105500105.

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Many studies have investigated the adequacy of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits as a form of income replacement, but few have looked at other resources with which the unemployed can finance their unemployment spells. This paper focuses on one form of resources, own wealth holdings. The author finds that the median worker's financial assets can cover roughly two-thirds of the income loss from an unemployment spell. Wealth holdings vary tremendously, however, and almost one-third of workers are unable to replace even 10% of their income loss. Moreover, predicted wealth holdings decline precipitously with realized unemployment durations, both absolutely and (especially) relative to actual income loss. This finding, together with the finding that individuals who are eligible for more generous UI draw down their wealth more slowly than do others during unemployment spells, suggests that UI benefit adequacy could be increased if the benefits were targeted to those with longer unemployment spells.

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Loktyuhina, Natalia V., and Olesya A. Feoktistova. "Improving the Organizational and Financial Models of Employment Assistance in Russia." Financial Journal 14, no. 4 (August 2022): 29–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.31107/2075-1990-2022-4-29-45.

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The article discusses the basics of employment policy in Russia: the organizational model in terms of delineation of responsibilities between stakeholders, and the financial model in terms of the two basic directions of employment policy — passive, in the form of cash benefits to the unemployed, and active, in the form of programs of employment assistance. The authors show that the Russian model of unemployment benefits has lost its original intent: the benefits have become an analogue of social support, since they are virtually unrelated to previous earnings. The unemployment benefit is, in fact, counter-productive, since it contributes to the growth of registered unemployment (including the so-called “professional unemployment”, when the unemployed are not motivated to find a job). As a result, the resources of the Employment Service are wasted and the prospects of its modernization are put at risk. Regarding active employment programs, the authors highlight the following problem: while the implementation of active labor market programs is the responsibility of subnational governments, the mandatory list of such programs is set by the federal government, which constitutes an unfunded mandate imposed upon subnational government by the federal government. In fact, the measures needed to support employment may vary significantly from territory to territory, and the focus of most existing programs is to support the registered unemployed, while motivated job seekers could use job search support before registering. The authors recommend to reform the organizational and financial models of employment services in Russia, first of all by allowing the regions to design their own employment support policies that take into account the specifics of the local labor market. They also recommend to abolish the current noncontributory unemployment benefit in Russia and to replace it with a means-tested income support benefit for the poor.

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Wikeley, Nick. "Unemployment Benefit, the State, and the Labour Market." Journal of Law and Society 16, no. 3 (1989): 291. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1409985.

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Bover, Olympia, Manuel Arellano, and Samuel Bentolila. "Unemployment Duration, Benefit Duration and the Business Cycle." Economic Journal 112, no. 479 (April 1, 2002): 223–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0297.00034.

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Nahid, Asifa, and Abul F. M. Shamsuddin. "Immigration and the unemployment benefit programme in Australia." Applied Economics 33, no. 12 (October 2001): 1587–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00036840010014021.

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Albertini, Julien, and Arthur Poirier. "Unemployment benefit extensions at the zero lower bound." Review of Economic Dynamics 18, no. 4 (October 2015): 733–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.red.2015.07.003.

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Cottier, Lionel, Kathrin Degen, and Rafael Lalive. "Can unemployment benefit cuts improve employment and earnings?" Empirical Economics 59, no. 2 (March 29, 2019): 659–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00181-019-01677-6.

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Smith, Daniel L., and Jeffrey B. Wenger. "State Unemployment Insurance Trust Solvency and Benefit Generosity." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 32, no. 3 (May 14, 2013): 536–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pam.21701.

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