Claudio Michelacci, Hernán Ruffo
Unemployment insurance plays an increasingly large role in the labour market (Boone et al. 2017, Marinescu 2016, Midões and Serék 2021). At the same time, part-time unemployment benefits provided to persons working non-regular jobs while seeking a regular job play an increasingly important role in unemployment insurance systems. The rise in the incidence of such alternative work arrangements as temporary work, part-time work, and self-employment – as well as the new kinds of work relationships emerging in the online gig economy – has increased part-time unemployment take-up in several countries. In France, almost half of all unemployment-benefit recipients work while on claim during their unemployment spell. Part-time unemployment benefits are also widespread in Belgium, Finland, Austria, and Germany (Ek Spector 2015, Cahuc 2018).