Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/146388 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Cardiff Economics Working Papers No. E2015/4
Publisher: 
Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff
Abstract: 
Recent evidence questions the nature of the re-employment spike as unemployment insurance (UI) payments expire. Unemployed agents do not appear to devote more time to search and are observed leaving the UI scheme early without necessarily entering employment. We show that benefit fraud is consistent with both observations. Over time, UI recipients become increasingly willing to accept short-term cash-in-hand work. This takes them away from job search. Im- mediately before UI expiry, the risk of punishment for fraud exceeds the value of remaining payments. Recipients may voluntarily leave the scheme to accept cash-in-hand opportunities.
Subjects: 
Cash-in-hand
Benefit fraud
Unemployment insurance
Re-employment spike
JEL: 
J46
J64
J65
K42
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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