IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/crs/wpaper/2008-14.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

The Non Take-up of an Unemployment Insurance Reform in France

Author

Listed:
  • Sylvie Blasco

    (Crest)

Abstract

On July 2001 a more generous unemployment insurance system was introduced in France.Those who were registered at the national unemployment agency at the moment of thereform could choose between staying in the former system and switching to the new one.This paper deals with the selection problem. To explain non participation, we propose atheoretical stationary job search model with several search channels, endogenous searche ort and psychological and time costs associated with the use of the public channel.Because of data availability, we estimate the non take-up rate and identify the stayingpopulation using defective duration methods.We nd a signi cant non take-up rate smallerthan 10% and evidence of self-selection. Stigma, informational issues and expectation of ashort unemployment spell are found to explain non participation.

Suggested Citation

  • Sylvie Blasco, 2008. "The Non Take-up of an Unemployment Insurance Reform in France," Working Papers 2008-14, Center for Research in Economics and Statistics.
    • Handle: RePEc:crs:wpaper:2008-14
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://crest.science/RePEc/wpstorage/2008-14.pdf
    File Function: Crest working paper version
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Stéphane Auray & David L. Fuller, 2020. "Eligibility, experience rating, and unemployment insurance take‐up," Quantitative Economics, Econometric Society, vol. 11(3), pages 1059-1107, July.
    2. Baguelin, Olivier & Remillon, Delphine, 2014. "Unemployment insurance and management of the older workforce in a dual labor market: Evidence from France," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 30(C), pages 245-264.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:crs:wpaper:2008-14. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Secretariat General (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/crestfr.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.