We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job … search guidelines - affect unemployment. In our analysis we find that not only micro effects concerning the behavior of … individual unemployed workers are relevant, but also macro-spillover effects from the additional creation of vacancies, which …

This paper investigates how a mandatory activation program in Denmark affects the job finding rate of unemployed … unemployed in the period from November 2005 to March 2006 were randomly assigned to the program while the other half was not. It … appears that the activation program is very effective. The median unemployment duration of the control group is 14 weeks …

This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions, i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits … as punishment for noncompliance with eligibility requirements. In addition to the effects on unemployment durations, we … evaluate the effects on post-unemployment employment stability, on exits from the labor market and on earnings. In our analysis …

This paper analyzes how a change in Slovenia's unemployment insurance law affected the quality of jobs workers found … after periods of unemployment. Taking advantage the "natural experiment" we show through difference …-in-differences estimation results that reducing the potential duration of unemployment benefits had no detectable effect on wages, on the …

This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions, i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits … as punishment for noncompliance with eligibility requirements. In addition to the effects on unemployment durations, we … evaluate the effects on post-unemployment employment stability, on exits from the labor market and on earnings. In our analysis …

with the 1980s recession it is concluded that there is a high cross-country correlation of the unemployment rates over the …. Young workers are the most affected by the Great Recession both in terms of unemployment rates as well as employment rates …The Great Recession is characterized by a GDP-decline that was unprecedented in the past decades. This paper discusses …

This paper studies the relationship between the change in the unemployment rate and output growth using an approach …

With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate …

With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate …