¶ Unemployment insurance and underemployment

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¶ BibTeX

@article{godoy2016unemployment,
  title={Unemployment insurance and underemployment},
  author={God{\o}y, Anna and R{\o}ed, Knut},
  journal={Labour},
  volume={30},
  number={2},
  pages={158--179},
  year={2016},
  publisher={Wiley Online Library}
}

¶ Abstract

Should unemployment insurance (UI) systems provide coverage for underemployed job seekers? Based on a statistical analysis of Norwegian unemployment spells, we conclude that the answer to this question is yes. Allowing insured job seekers to retain partial UI benefits during periods of insufficient part-time work not only reduces UI expenditures during the part-time work period, but it also unambiguously reduces the time until a regular self-supporting job is found. Probable explanations are that even small temporary part-time jobs provide access to useful vacancy information and that such jobs are used by employers as a screening device when hiring from the unemployment pool.