Do Job Seekers Understand the Ui Benefit System (and Does it Matter)?

Altmann, Steffen; Cairo, Sofie; Mahlstedt, Robert; Sebald, Alexander

doi:10.2139/ssrn.4285843

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“…They conclude that increasing the weekly benefit is more efficient than reducing the tax. Cahuc et al (2021) and Altmann et al (2022) ran large randomized controlled experiments in France and Denmark. They took advantage of the lack of knowledge of job seekers regarding partial UI and provided information about this scheme.…”

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Labor Market Insurance Policies in the Twenty-First Century

Boeri

Cahuc

2023

Annual Review of Economics

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The COVID-19 crisis was a stress test for unemployment insurance schemes as it involved a sudden and unexpected shutdown of a very large set of activities. This forced countries to introduce, often from scratch, income support schemes for workers under new forms of employment and for the self-employed. There was also a considerable expansion of short-time work schemes. As we move past this crisis, labor markets are likely to be characterized by substantial labor reallocation, and major innovations in labor market policy will be required to smooth consumption of workers involved in this reallocation. We survey the large body of research on schemes complementary to unemployment insurance to reduce the costs of reallocation. We focus on short-time work, partial unemployment insurance, and wage insurance and compare their properties to those of standard unemployment benefits. Next we present the main empirical results on the effects of wage insurance, partial unemployment insurance, and short-time work. In the final section we discuss directions for further research. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Economics, Volume 15 is August 2023. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Section: Timing Of Eventsmentioning

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Labor Market Insurance Policies in the Twenty-First Century

Boeri

Cahuc

2023

Annual Review of Economics

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“…4 Unemployed workers may not be aware of the possibility to keep part of their benefits if they take up a part-time job or they may not know the details of complex benefit rules. Using randomized information experiments, Altmann et al (2022) and Benghalen et al (2023) find that the provision of information about partial benefits increased the propensity to work part-time while receiving benefits in Denmark and France, respectively.…”

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