TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Godoy, Anna
AU  - Røed, Knut
        TI  - Unemployment Insurance and Underemployment
        PY  - 2014/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 7913
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp7913
        AB  - Should unemployment insurance (UI) systems provide coverage for underemployed job seekers? Based on a statistical analysis of Norwegian unemployment spells, we conclude that the answer to this question is yes. Allowing insured job seekers to retain partial UI benefits during periods of insufficient part-time work not only reduces UI expenditures during the part-time work period; it also unambiguously reduces the time until a regular self-supporting job is found. Probable explanations are that even small temporary part-time jobs provide access to useful vacancy-information and that such jobs are used by employers as a screening device when hiring from the unemployment pool.
        KW  - duration analysis
KW  - unemployment insurance
KW  - part-time work
        ER  -