firms, 3) partly offset by unemployment benefits, and 4) amplified by concurrent drops in partners’ earnings. On net …

Unemployment Insurance system to measure the effects of imperfect experience-rating on temporary layoffs and other types of … unemployment. We find a strong negative association between the degree of experience-rating and the rate of temporary layoff … unemployment, with the largest effect in recessionary years and the smallest effect in expansionary years. Increases in the degree …

The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This paper … evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 … weeks for elderly individuals in certain regions of Austria. In the evaluation, we explicitly account for the fact that the …

defined by the time spent on the unemployment system. In Austria, the exit rate from registered unemployment rises by over 200 …"In this paper, we review the literature on the "spike" in unemployment exit rates around benefit exhaustion, and … present new evidence based on administrative data for a large sample of job losers in Austria. We find that the way …

unemployment insurance benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, where the benefit schedule has kinks at the minimum and … institutional settings where a policy variable (such as weekly unemployment benefits) is determined by an observed but potentially …