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References for Unemployment benefits and unemployment
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Further reading
- Fredriksson, P., Holmlund, B. "Improving incentives in unemployment insurance: A review of recent research" Journal of Economic Surveys 20 (2006): 357–386.
- Guipponi, G., Landais, C., Lapeyre, A. "Should We Insure Workers or Jobs during Recessions?" Journal of Economic Perspectives 20:3 (2006): 29-54.
- Krueger, A., Meyer, B. "Labor supply effects of social insurance" In: Auerbach, A., Feldstein, M. (eds). Handbook of Public Economics. New York and Amsterdam: North-Holland, 2002.
- Tatsiramos, K., van Ours, J. C. Labor market effects of unemployment insurance design IZA Discussion Paper, 2012-10.
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Key references
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OECD "Benefits and Wages: Net Replacement Rates in Unemployment" OECD Social and Welfare Statistics, 2024. Key reference: [1]
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Gruber, J. "The consumption
smoothing benefits of unemployment insurance" American Economic
Review 87:1 (1997): 192–205. Key reference: [2]
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Browning, M., Crossley, T. "Unemployment
insurance benefit levels and consumption changes" Journal of Public
Economics 80:1 (2001): 1–23. Key reference: [3]
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Schmieder, J. F., von
Wachter, T., Bender, S. "The Effect of Unemployment Benefits and Nonemployment Durations on Wages" American Economic Review 106:3 (2016): 739-777. Key reference: [4]
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Nekoei, A., Weber, A. "Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality?" American Economic Review 107:2 (2017): 527-561. Key reference: [5]
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Hamermesh, D. "Entitlement
effects, unemployment insurance, and employment
decisions" Economic
Inquiry 17:3 (1979): 317–332. Key reference: [6]
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Chetty, R. "Moral hazard vs.
liquidity and optimal unemployment insurance" Journal of
Political Economy 116:2 (2008): 173–234. Key reference: [7]
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Schmieder, J. F., von Wachter, T. "The Effects of Unemployment Benefits: New Evidence and Interpretation" Annual Review of Economics 8 (2016): 547-581. Key reference: [8]
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Lopes, M. "A Review on the Elasticity of Unemployment Duration to the Potential Duration of Unemployment Benefits" Journal of Economic Surveys 36 (2022): 1212-1224. Key reference: [9]
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Schmieder, J. F., von
Wachter, T., Bender, S. "The effects of
extended unemployment insurance over the business cycle:
Evidence from regression discontinuity estimates over 20
years" Quarterly Journal
of Economics 127:2 (2012): 701–752. Key reference: [10]
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Kroft, K., Notowidigdo, M. J. "Should Unemployment Insurance Vary with the Unemployment Rate? Theory and Evidence" Review of Economic Studies 83:3 (2016): 1092-1124. Key reference: [11]
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Rothstein, J. "Unemployment
insurance and job search in the great recession" Brookings Papers on
Economic Activity (2011). Key reference: [12]
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Abbring, J., van den Berg, G. J., van Ours, J. C. "The Effect of Unemployment Insurance Sanctions on the Transition Rate from Unemployment to Employment" 115:505 (2005): 602-630. Key reference: [13]
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Arni, P., Schiprowski, A. "Job Search Requirements, Effort Provision, and Labor Market Outcomes" Journal of Public Economics 169:3 (2019): 65-88. Key reference: [14]
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Arni, P., Lalive, R., van Ours, J. C. "How Effective are Unemployment Benefit Sanctions? Looking Beyond the Unemployment Exit" Journal of Applied Econometrics 28:7 (2013): 1153-1178. Key reference: [15]
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OECD "Benefits and Wages: Net Replacement Rates in Unemployment" OECD Social and Welfare Statistics, 2024.
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Additional References
- Burtless, G. "Relative unemployment in Canada and the United States: An assessment" Canadian Public Policy 24 (1998): S254–S263.
- Card, C., Chetty, R., Weber, A. "Cash-on-hand and competing models of intertemporal behavior: New evidence from the labor market" Quarterly Journal of Economics 122:4 (2007): 1511–1560.
- Card, D., Riddell, W. C. "A comparative analysis of unemployment in Canada and the United States" In: Card, D., Freeman, R. (eds). Small Differences That Matter: Labor Markets and Income. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
- Farber, H. S., Valletta, R. G. "Do extended unemployment benefits lengthen unemployment spells?: Evidence from recent cycles in the US labor market" Journal of Human Resources 50:4 (2015): 873-909.
- Lalive, R., van Ours, J. C., Zweimuller, J. "How changes in financial incentives affect the duration of unemployment" Review of Economic Studies 73:4 (2006): 1009–1038.
- Landais, C. "Assessing the welfare effects of unemployment benefits using the regression kink design" American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 7:4 (2015): 243-278.