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CEP discussion paper
Risk-based selection in unemployment insurance: evidence and implications

This paper studies whether adverse selection can rationalize a universal mandate for unemployment insurance (UI). Building on a unique feature of the unemployment policy in Sweden, where workers can opt for supplemental ...Read more...

Camille Landais, Arash Nekoei, Peter Nilsson, David Seim and Johannes Spinnewijn

16 October 2017

CEP discussion paper
The optimal timing of UI benefits: theory and evidence from Sweden

This paper provides a simple, yet general framework to analyze the optimal time profile of benefits during the unemployment spell. We derive simple sufficient-statistics formulae capturing the insurance value and incenti...Read more...

Jonas Kolsrud, Camille Landais, Peter Nilsson and Johannes Spinnewijn

8 July 2015