We identify the causal effect of lump-sum severance payments on non-employment duration in Norway by exploiting a … they are likely to exist also in other countries. -- Unemployment ; Optimal Unemployment Insurance ; Liquidity Constraints …

This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in … difficult-to-explain trends in the unemployment rate of older German workers …

We systematically review studies of how unemployment benefits affect unemployment duration. Statistically significant …

disaggregate unemployment and in the cross-sectional differences across individuals of the duration of unemployment spells. The …-space model of Ahn and Hamilton (2016). I found that the contribution of each factor to the dynamics of disaggregate unemployment … than 50 percent of the cross-sectional dispersion in completed-duration spells after the Great Recession, while observed …

The introduction of unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISA) in Chile in October 2002 introduced more … comprehensive unemployment protection while decreasing the opportunity costs of job change. Being the first to empirically … investigate the effect of UISA on employment duration, this paper examines (i) whether the introduction of UISA affected …

Government schemes that compensate workers for the loss of income while they are on short hours (known as short-time … access for freelancers and those looking to work part-time. …

Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and … the quality of the work found by the unemployed. This quality rise, in terms of both wages and duration, can be achieved … by increasing the time and resources available to an individual to obtain a better job. …