In Portugal duration of benefits is exclusively age determined while replacement rates are toall intents and purposes … uniform. We exploit differences in potential maximum duration ofbenefits for nearly matched pairs of individuals who differ in … age by one year and in potentialmaximum duration of benefits by three months... …

´s institutional response to the increase in unemployment and poverty triggered by the crisis. The program provided a social safety net …

A duration model based on the time on Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits instead of amodel based on the time till re …) Proportional Hazard model toaccount for an upper bound on the duration... …

In this paper, we review the literature on the “spike” in unemployment exit rates aroundbenefit exhaustion, and present … new evidence based on administrative data for a largesample of job losers in Austria. We find that the way unemployment …

We examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and unemployment using Swedish regional data. To estimate the … effect of an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) on unemployment we exploit the ceiling on UI benefits. The benefit …

This paper studies optimal unemployment benefit levels and optimal proportional income taxrates over the business cycle … unemployment. An alternative way to redistribute income is to vary tax rates overthe business cycle. In this paper, we develop an …

This paper studies contingent, temporary unemployment insurance (UI) coverag´s impactson employment and unemployment … durations using a duration model extended with heapingconsiderations and a recent Canadian panel data... …

Based on a sequence of reforms in the Norwegian unemployment insurance (UI) system, weshow that activity-oriented UI … regimes – i.e., regimes with a high likelihood of requiredparticipation in active labor market programs, duration limitations …