Unemployment Duration, Incentives and Institutions - A Micro-Econometric Analysis Based on Scandinavian Data

Knut Røed (), Peter Jensen and Anna Thoursie ()
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Anna Thoursie: Swedish Institute for Social Research, Swedish Trade Union Confederation, Postal: Barnhusgatan 18 , 105 53 Stockholm,

No 09/2002, Memorandum from Oslo University, Department of Economics

Abstract: Based on a combined register database for Norwegian and Swedish unemployment spells, we use the ‘between-countries-variation’ in the unemployment insurance systems to identify causal effects. The elasticity of the job hazard rate with respect to the benefit replacement ratio is around -1.0 in Norway and -0.5 in Sweden. The limited benefit duration period in Sweden has a large positive impact on the hazard rate, despite generous renewal options through participation in labour market programs. Compulsory program participation seems to operate as a ‘stick’, rather than a ‘carrot’, and is therefore an efficienttool for counteracting moral hazard problems in the benefit system.

Keywords: Unemployment spells; unemployment compensation; non-parametric duration analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C41 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2003-06-16
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