Labour market impact of the option right

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Table of contents

1 Generosity versus Duration Trade-Off and the Optimisation Ability of the Unemployed 
1 Introduction
2 Legislation and data
3 The determinants of the takeup
4 Empirical implementation
5 Results
5.1 Labour market impact of the option right
5.2 The optimisation ability of the unemployed
5.3 Adverse selection and moral hazard
6 Concluding remarks
2 Unemployment Benefits and the Timing of Redundancies: Evidence from Bunching 
1 Introduction
2 Institutional Background
3 Empirical Evidence of Bunching
3.1 Data
3.2 Documentation of the Bunching
3.3 Underlying Mechanisms: Exploration of the Bargaining Process126
4 Theoretical Framework of Negotiated Layoff
5 Heterogeneity in Bunching
5.1 Empirical Bunching Estimation
5.1.1 Baseline methodology
5.1.2 The Difference-in-Bunching Strategy
5.2 Characterisation of the buncher
5.3 Interaction Between Ability and Incentives
5.3.1 Individual characteristics
5.3.2 Firms’ characteristics
6 Robustness Checks and Extensions
6.1 Round-Number Fixed Effects
6.2 Response at the two-years cutoff
6.3 Extensive margin response
7 Welfare implications
8 Concluding Remarks
1 Institutional context
2 Extensions
2.1 Other optimisation mechanisms
2.2 Bunching at the two-year threshold
3 Alternative theoretical framework
4 Methodological discussion
3 Entitled to Leave: the Impact of Unemployment Insurance Eligibility on Employment Duration and Job Quality 
1 Institutional background
2 Data and Descriptive Statistics
3 Empirical evidence of a separation response
4 Impact of UI eligibility criterion on contract duration
5 Extensive margin effect of UI benefits
6 Conclusion
Main conclusion
Conclusion générale
References