"Unemployment benefits, benefit duration, base period and qualifying period are constituent parameters of the … unemployment insurance system in most OECD countries. From economic research we know that the amount and duration of unemployment … benefits increase unemployment. To analyze the effects of the other two parameters we use a matching model with search …

"Unemployment insurance (UI) sanctions in the form of benefit reductions are intended to set disincentives for UI …

professional skills and techniques (SPST). Using the inflows into unemployment for the year 1993, the empirical analysis uses local … programs starting during 1 to 6, 7 to 12, and 13 to 24 months of unemployment. The empirical results show a negative lock … estimated treatment effects is quite similar for the three time intervals of elapsed unemployment considered. The positive …

"In 2005, benefit sanctions in Germany were tightened with the introduction of the new means-tested unemployment … wage of sanctioned unemployment benefit II recipients. The behavioral effect of a benefit sanction is an empirically open … sanctions on the reservation wages of sanctioned unemployment benefit II recipients. A side result is that sanctioned UB II …

"In Germany, since 2005 needy job-seekers without access to earnings-related and insurance-paid 'unemployment benefit I …' are entitled to means-tested and tax-funded 'unemployment benefit II'. Several active labour market programmes support the … shares not unemployed and the share no longer receiving 'unemployment benefit II' are slightly smaller." (Author's abstract …