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Martín Román, Ángel Luis 2023-02-13T12:42:39Z 2023-02-13T12:42:39Z 2022 Economic Modelling, 2022, vol, 110, p. 105812 0264-9993 https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/58639 10.1016/j.econmod.2022.105812 105812 Economic Modelling 110 This paper identifies and analyses a new effect related to the cyclical behaviour of labour supply: the Entitled-Worker Effect (EWE). This effect is different from the well-known Added-Worker Effect (AWE) and Discouraged-Worker Effect (DWE). The EWE is a consequence of one of the most important labour institutions: the unemployment benefit (UB). We develop a model with uncertainty about the results of the job-seeking and transaction costs linked to such a search process, showing that a kind of moral hazard appears. This creates new incentives for workers and produces an additional counter-cyclical pressure on aggregate labour supply, but with a different foundation from that of the AWE. We present empirical evidence supporting the EWE for the Spanish case. As a forward-looking conclusion, policymakers should rethink their political actions in the future as unemployment might be overstated, particularly in those countries with generous UB systems. eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ © 2022 The Author(s) Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Beyond the added-worker and the discouraged-worker effects: the entitled-worker effect info:eu-repo/semantics/article