%0 Report
        %A Godoy, Anna
%A Røed, Knut
        %T Unemployment Insurance and Underemployment
        %D 2014
        %8 2014 Jan
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 7913
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7913
        %X 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.
        %K duration analysis
%K unemployment insurance
%K part-time work