Unemployment insurance generosity: a trans-atlantic comparison

Arbeitspapier

The goal of this paper 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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 3869

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
• Subject: Unemployment insurance ; labor market policy evaluation ; Arbeitslosenversicherung ; Lohnersatzleistungen ; Haushaltsökonomik ; Sozialtransfer ; Messung ; Vergleich ; Frankreich ; Ohio ; Westeuropa ; USA

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Pallage, Stéphane ; Scruggs, Lyle ; Zimmermann, Christian
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2008

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/35625
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-20081216232
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET