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 studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20 %. Moreover, we find that …

low amounts of search and long-term unemployment if they reside far away from jobs. They choose voluntarily not to …

We evaluate the effect of active labour market programs on the duration of unemployment in a reward or punish system …. In Switzerland, unemployment benefits are conditional upon program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. In … reduced during participation. Taken together, this leads to the conclusion that programs prolong unemployment duration for men …

in their labour-market outcomes. This even occurs in the absence of a taste for discrimination against blacks or … a result, in equilibrium, blacks end up with both higher unemployment rates and lower wages than whites. Furthermore, it …

This Paper investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment duration. Data from the Swiss … positive effect on the exit rate out of unemployment. Moreover, the stricter the sanction policy the shorter the duration of … unemployment. This can be taken as evidence of a strong ex-ante effect of a strict sanction policy. …

We develop a regional model where, in the city, unemployment prevails because of too high (efficiency) wages, while, in … that it is unique. We then consider two policies: decreasing urban unemployment benefits and subsidizing urban employment …. We find that decreasing the unemployment benefit in the city creates urban jobs and reduces rural-urban migration since …