Unemployment Insurance Generosity: A Transatlantic Comparison

Stephane Pallage, Lyle Scruggs and Christian Zimmermann

Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2009, issue 95-96, 15-23

Abstract: The goal of this article 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

Date: 2009
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