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152 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15267
Stable Income, Stable Family
Jason M. Lindo, Krishna Regmi, Isaac D. Swensen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15155
Maternal Displacements during Pregnancy and the Health of Newborns
Stefano Cellini, Livia Menezes, Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15020
Would Broadening the UI Tax Base Help Low-Income Workers?
Mark Duggan, Audrey Guo, Andrew C. Johnston
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14927
Did Pandemic Unemployment Benefits Reduce Employment? Evidence from Early State-Level Expirations in June 2021
Harry J. Holzer, Glenn Hubbard, Michael R. Strain
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14919
Willingness to Pay for Workplace Safety
Massimo Anelli, Felix Koenig
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14740
Why Is Workplace Sexual Harassment Underreported? The Value of outside Options amid the Threat of Retaliation
Gordon B. Dahl, Matthew Knepper
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14543
Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Diogo Britto, Paolo Pinotti, Breno Sampaio
R&R at the Review of Economic Studies
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14508
Young and Hungry? Employment Levels for Young People During Spring 2021
John V. Winters
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14454
UI Generosity and Job Acceptance: Effects of the 2020 CARES Act
Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau, Robert G. Valletta
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14327
Experiencing Booms and Busts in the Welfare State and Support for Redistribution
Kerstin F. Hansen, Alois Stutzer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14189
The Lock-in Effects of Part-Time Unemployment Benefits
Helène Benghalem, Pierre Cahuc, Pierre Villedieu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14105
Unemployment Insurance as a Worker Indiscipline Device? Evidence from Scanner Data
Lester Lusher, Geoffrey Schnorr, Rebecca L.C. Taylor
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14085
Whether, When and How to Extend Unemployment Benefits: Theory and Application to COVID-19
Kurt Mitman, Stanislav Rabinovich
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 200, 104447
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14038
Unemployment Duration and the Take-up of Unemployment Insurance
Sylvie Blasco, Francois Fontaine
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13752
Parental Unemployment, Social Insurance and Child Well-Being across Countries
Kerstin F. Hansen, Alois Stutzer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13643
Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the CARES Act on Earnings and Inequality
Guido Matias Cortes, Eliza Forsythe
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13497
License to Fire? Unemployment Insurance and the Moral Cost of Layoffs
Daniel Keum, Stephan Meier
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13389
Optimal Unemployment Benefits in the Pandemic
Kurt Mitman, Stanislav Rabinovich
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13341
The Effect of Unemployment Benefits on the Duration of Unemployment Insurance Receipt: New Evidence from a Regression Kink Design in Missouri, 2003-2013
David Card, Andrew C. Johnston, Pauline Leung, Alexandre Mas, Zhuan Pei
published in: American Economics Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2015, 105 (5), 126-130
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13331
Potential Unemployment Insurance Duration and Labor Supply: The Individual and Market-Level Response to a Benefit Cut
Andrew C. Johnston, Alexandre Mas
pubished in: Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 126 (6), 2480-2522
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13330
The Finance of Unemployment Compensation and its Consequence for the Labor Market
Audrey Guo, Andrew C. Johnston
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13324
Do Reemployment Programs for the Unemployed Work for Youth? Evidence from the Great Recession in the United States
Marios Michaelides, Peter R. Mueser, Jeffrey A. Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13300
The Effect of the Hartz Labor Market Reforms on Post-unemployment Wages, Sorting, and Matching
Simon D. Woodcock
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13280
The Effect of Job Loss and Unemployment Insurance on Crime in Brazil
Diogo Britto, Paolo Pinotti, Breno Sampaio
forthcoming in: Econometrica
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13117
Unemployment-Insurance Taxes and Labor Demand: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Administrative Data
Andrew C. Johnston
published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021, 13 (1), 266 - 293
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13002
Switching from an Inclining to a Zero-Level Unemployment Benefit Profile: Good for Work Incentives?
Bart Cockx, Koen Declercq, Muriel Dejemeppe, Leda Inga, Bruno Van der Linden
published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 64, 101816 [Online Access]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12913
The Macroeconomics of Automation: Data, Theory, and Policy Analysis
Nir Jaimovich, Itay Saporta-Eksten, Henry E. Siu, Yaniv Yedid-Levi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12805
Individual and Market-Level Effects of UI Policies: Evidence from Missouri
Fatih Karahan, Kurt Mitman, Brendan Moore
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12365
Do Unemployment Benefit Extensions Explain the Emergence of Jobless Recoveries?
Kurt Mitman, Stanislav Rabinovich
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12171
Timed to Say Goodbye: Does Unemployment Benefit Eligibility Affect Worker Layoffs?
Andrea Albanese, Corinna Ghirelli, Matteo Picchio
published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101846 [Online Access]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12154
Are Sufficient Statistics Necessary? Nonparametric Measurement of Deadweight Loss from Unemployment Insurance
David S. Lee, Pauline Leung, Christopher J. O'Leary, Zhuan Pei, Simon Quach
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (S2), S455-S506.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12154
Are Sufficient Statistics Necessary? Nonparametric Measurement of Deadweight Loss from Unemployment Insurance
David S. Lee, Pauline Leung, Christopher J. O'Leary, Zhuan Pei, Simon Quach
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (S2), S455-S506.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12154
Are Sufficient Statistics Necessary? Nonparametric Measurement of Deadweight Loss from Unemployment Insurance
David S. Lee, Pauline Leung, Christopher J. O'Leary, Zhuan Pei, Simon Quach
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (S2), S455-S506.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12127
Marginal Jobs and Job Surplus: A Test of the Efficiency of Separations
Simon Jäger, Benjamin Schoefer, Josef Zweimüller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12045
Wage Insurance, Part-Time Unemployment Insurance and Short-Time Work in the XXI Century
Pierre Cahuc
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12001
What Hides behind the German Labor Market Miracle? Unemployment Insurance Reforms and Labor Market Dynamics
Benjamin Hartung, Philip Jung, Moritz Kuhn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11931
Institutional Reforms and an Incredible Rise in Old Age Employment
Regina T. Riphahn, Rebecca Schrader
forthcoming in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11765
Job Search Requirements, Effort Provision and Labor Market Outcomes
Patrick Arni, Amelie Schiprowski
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2019, 169, 65-88
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11629
Quantifying the Benefits of Social Insurance: Unemployment Insurance and Health
Elira Kuka
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11496
Revisiting the Effects of Unemployment Insurance Extensions on Unemployment: A Measurement Error-Corrected Regression Discontinuity Approach
Steven G. Dieterle, Otávio Bartalotti, Quentin Brummet
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11300
Shortening the Potential Duration of Unemployment Benefits and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Germany
Inna Petrunyk, Christian Pfeifer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11275
Insurance, Redistribution, and the Inequality of Lifetime Income
Peter Haan, Daniel Kemptner, Victoria L. Prowse
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11068
Employer-Provided Severance Pay: The Emergence of Job Displacement Insurance, 1930–1954
Donald O. Parsons
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11067
Voluntary Employer-Provided Severance Pay
Donald O. Parsons
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11040
The Role of Caseworkers in Unemployment Insurance: Evidence from Unplanned Absences
Amelie Schiprowski
substantially revised version forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11010
Inefficient Short-Time Work
Pierre Cahuc, Sandra Nevoux
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10893
The Unemployment Insurance Taxable Wage Base Mystery
Donald O. Parsons
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10839
Long-Term Effects of Extended Unemployment Benefits for Older Workers
Tomi Kyyrä, Hanna Pesola
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10799
Estimating the Effects of Potential Benefit Duration without Variation in the Maximum Duration of Unemployment Benefits
Tomi Kyyrä, Hanna Pesola
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10798
The Spike at Benefit Exhaustion in the Finnish Labor Market
Tomi Kyyrä, Hanna Pesola, Jouko Kullervo Verho
published as "The Spike at Benefit Exhaustion: The Role of Measurement Error in Benefit Eligibility" in: Labour Economics, 2019, 60, 75-83
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10484
The Effects of UI Benefits on Unemployment and Subsequent Outcomes: Evidence from a Kinked Benefit Rule
Tomi Kyyrä, Hanna Pesola
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10439
Unemployment Insurance Generosity and Aggregate Employment
Christopher Boone, Arindrajit Dube, Lucas Goodman, Ethan Kaplan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10353
Strengthening Enforcement in Unemployment Insurance: A Natural Experiment
Patrick Arni, Amelie Schiprowski
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10264
Benefit Duration and Job Search Effort: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Andreas Lichter
substantially revised version published as 'Benefit duration, job search behavior and re-employment' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 193, 104326 (joint with Amelie Schiprowski)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10262
Working to Get Fired? Regression Discontinuity Effects of Unemployment Benefit Eligibility on Prior Employment Duration
Pedro S. Martins
published in: Journal of Policy Modelling, 2021, 43 (5), 1016-1030
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10182
Targeting Tax Relief at Youth Employment
Matthew D. Webb, Casey Warman, Arthur Sweetman
Published as: Webb, Matthew D., Casey Warman and Arthur Sweetman. 2016. “Targeting Tax Relief at Youth Employment” Canadian Public Policy 42 (4): 415–430.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10044
When the Going Gets Tough... Financial Incentives, Duration of Unemployment and Job-Match Quality
Yolanda Fatima Rebollo-Sanz, Núria Rodríguez-Planas
pubished in: Journal of Human Resources, 2020, 55 (1), 119-163
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9868
Disincentive Effects of Unemployment Benefits and the Role of Caseworkers
Johannes F. Schmieder, Simon Trenkle
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 182.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9865
Job Displacement Insurance: A Policy Typology
Donald O. Parsons
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9863
Labor Market Reforms in Europe: Towards More Flexicure Labor Markets?
Werner Eichhorst, Paul Marx, Caroline Wehner
published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2017, 51 (3): 1-17.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9824
Moral-Hazard-Free First-Best Unemployment Insurance
Donald O. Parsons
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9823
The Simple Analytics of Job Displacement Insurance
Donald O. Parsons
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9626
The Role of Sickness in the Evaluation of Job Search Assistance and Sanctions
Gerard J. van den Berg, Barbara Hofmann, Arne Uhlendorff
revised version published as 'Evaluating Vacancy Referrals and the Roles of Sanctions and Sickness Absenc' in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129, 3292-3322
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9617
Opening the Blackbox: How Does Labor Market Policy Affect the Job Seekers' Behavior? A Field Experiment
Patrick Arni
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9548
The Effect of Unemployment Benefit Generosity on Unemployment Duration: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Slovenia
Matija Vodopivec, Suzana Laporsek, Primož Dolenc, Milan Vodopivec
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9304
Blame the Parents? How Financial Incentives Affect Labor Supply and Job Quality for Young Adults
Andrey Fradkin, Frédéric Panier, Ilan Tojerow
published as 'Blame the Parents? How Parental Unemployment Affects Labor Supply and Job Quality for Young Adults'in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (1), 35-100
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9151
The Impact of Short- and Long-Term Participation Tax Rates on Labor Supply
Charlotte Bartels, Nico Pestel
revised version published as 'Short- and Long-term Participation Tax Rates and Their Impact on Labor Supply' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2016, 23(6), 1126-1159
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9034
Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality?
Arash Nekoei, Andrea Weber
published in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107(2), 527-561.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8991
Benefit Reentitlement Conditions in Unemployment Insurance Schemes
Torben M. Andersen, Mark Strom Kristoffersen, Michael Svarer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8980
Optimal Social Assistance and Unemployment Insurance in a Life-Cycle Model of Family Labor Supply and Savings
Peter Haan, Victoria L. Prowse
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8951
The Effects of Binding and Non-Binding Job Search Requirements
Patrick Arni, Amelie Schiprowski
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8783
Voluntary Public Unemployment Insurance
Donald O. Parsons, Torben Tranæs, Helene Bie Lilleør
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8700
The Causal Effect of Unemployment Duration on Wages: Evidence from Unemployment Insurance Extensions
Johannes F. Schmieder, Till von Wachter, Stefan Bender
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8667
Universal Basic Income versus Unemployment Insurance
Alice Fabre, Stéphane Pallage, Christian Zimmermann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8598
An Unemployment Insurance Scheme for the Euro Area? A Comparison of Different Alternatives using Micro Data
Mathias Dolls, Clemens Fuest, Dirk Neumann, Andreas Peichl
revised version forthcoming in: International Tax and Public Finance
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8597
Welfare Effects of Short-Time Compensation
Helge Braun, Björn Brügemann
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8223
Job Displacement Insurance: An Overview
Donald O. Parsons
published in: J. Wright (ed.): International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed., 2015, 12. Oxford, 819-832
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7957
A Contribution to the Empirics of Reservation Wages
Alan B. Krueger, Andreas I. Mueller
published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2016, 8 (1), 142-179
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7913
Unemployment Insurance and Underemployment
Anna Godoy, Knut Røed
revised version published in: Labour, 2016, 30 (2), 158–179
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7809
What Do Labor Market Institutions Do?
Bertil Holmlund
published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 62-69
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7772
Aid to Jobless Workers in Florida in the Face of the Great Recession: The Interaction of Unemployment Insurance and the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program
Colleen M. Heflin, Peter R. Mueser
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7650
Market Externalities of Large Unemployment Insurance Extension Programs
Rafael Lalive, Camille Landais, Josef Zweimüller
published in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (12), 3564-3596
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7641
Understanding Severance Pay
Donald O. Parsons
Cuadernos de Economía (Spanish Journal of Economics and Finance), 2013, 36 (106), 155-165.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7589
Assessing the Welfare Effects of Unemployment Benefits Using the Regression Kink Design
Camille Landais
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7488
Should Unemployment Insurance Be Asset-Tested?
Sebastian Koehne, Moritz Kuhn
published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2015, 18 (3), 575-592
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7347
Do Extended Unemployment Benefits Lengthen Unemployment Spells? Evidence from Recent Cycles in the U.S. Labor Market
Henry S Farber, Robert G. Valletta
revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50(4), 873-909
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7128
Unemployment Insurance, Wage Dynamics and Inequality over the Life Cycle
Paul Bingley, Lorenzo Cappellari, Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen
published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (568), 341–372
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7077
Is Longer Unemployment Rewarded with Longer Job Tenure?
Miki Kohara, Masaru Sasaki, Tomohiro Machikita
published in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2013, 29, 44-56
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6992
Do Low-Wage Workers React Less to Longer Unemployment Benefits? Quasi-Experimental Evidence
Mario Centeno, Alvaro A. Novo
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 76(2), 185–207
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6950
Labor Market Effects of Unemployment Insurance Design
Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Jan C. van Ours
published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2014, 28 (2), 284 - 311
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6660
Unemployment Insurance, Job Search and Informal Employment
David N. Margolis, Lucas Navarro, David A. Robalino
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6553
Early Interventions and Disability Insurance: Experience from a Field Experiment
Per Engström, Pathric Hägglund, Per Johansson
forthcoming in: Economic Journal [Online First]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6308
Unemployment Benefits or Taxes: How Should Policy Makers Redistribute Income over the Business Cycle?
Susanne Ek Spector
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6294
Selective Hiring and Welfare Analysis in Labor Market Models
Christian Merkl, Thijs van Rens
revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 57, 117-130
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6003
Double-Sided Moral Hazard in Job Displacement Insurance Contracts
Donald O. Parsons
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5710
A Flexicurity Labour Market in the Great Recession: The Case of Denmark
Torben M. Andersen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5577
Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts in Latin America: Overview and Assessment
Ana Ferrer, W. Craig Riddell
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5540
Part-Time Unemployment and Optimal Unemployment Insurance
Susanne Ek Spector, Bertil Holmlund
published in International Tax and Public Finance, 2015, 22(2), 201-223
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5476
Incentive Effects of Risk Pooling, Redistributive and Savings Arrangements in Unemployment Benefit Systems: Evidence from a Job-Search Model for Brazil
David A. Robalino, Eduardo Zylberstajn, Juan David Robalino
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5450
Job Search and Job Finding in a Period of Mass Unemployment: Evidence from High-Frequency Longitudinal Data
Alan B. Krueger, Andreas I. Mueller
published in: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2011, 42 (1), 1-81
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