Bericht

Unemployment Benefits and Household Credit Risk

In Norway the wage replacement rate, i.e. the proportion of wage income that is replaced by unemployment benefit, falls with high income. At the same time, the distribution of debt is skewed towards high-income earners. This paper maps out the wage replacement rate across Norwegian households and discuss credit risk in the event of unemployment.

ISBN
978-82-7553-838-1
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Staff Memo ; No. 17/2014

Classification
Wirtschaft

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Lindquist, Kjersti-Gro
Vatne, Bjørn Helge
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Norges Bank
(where)
Oslo
(when)
2014

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Object type

  • Bericht

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  • Lindquist, Kjersti-Gro
  • Vatne, Bjørn Helge
  • Norges Bank

Time of origin

  • 2014

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