TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Pallage, Stéphane
AU  - Scruggs, Lyle
AU  - Zimmermann, Christian
        TI  - Unemployment Insurance Generosity: A Trans-Atlantic Comparison
        PY  - 2008/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3869
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3869
        AB  - The goal of this paper is to establish if unemployment insurance policies are more generous in Europe than in the United States, and by how much. We take the examples of France and one particular American state, Ohio, and use the methodology of Pallage, Scruggs and Zimmermann (2008) to find a unique parameter value for each region that fully characterizes the generosity of the system. These two values can then be used in structural models that compare the regions, for example to explain the differences in unemployment rates.
        KW  - labor market policy evaluation
KW  - unemployment insurance
        ER  -