employment and to other destinations -- at various durations of unemployment spells and for many categories of unemployed workers …"In 1998 the Slovenian UI system was drastically reformed. The reform reduced the potential duration of unemployment … benefits substantially and simultaneously improved employment services offered to, and monitoring of, the recipients. We find …

unemployment and subsequent employment duration for the recipients is statistically significant for the short-term unemployed in …"This paper studies the effect of unemployment benefits on the unemployment and subsequent employment duration using … month in unemployment increases their subsequent employment stability. This positive correlation between previous …

We combine two techniques to consistently estimate the effect of active labour market programmes and, in particular …, active labour market policy regimes. Our aim is to explicitly estimate the threat effect of active labour market programmes …. The threat effect is shown to reduce average unemployment duration by approximately three weeks. The implications of this …