The paper discusses harmonization of unemployment insurance (UI) and sickness insurance (SI). The focus is on the …

Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search …–2004. We estimate duration models dealing with selection on unobservables. We use weighted exogenous sampling maximum …

Employment and wage subsidies are used to combat long-term unemployment, yet there is little research to guide the …-policy allow us to study effects of both subsidy rate and subsidy duration. We find that doubling of the subsidy rate has a … substantial impact on job finding rates but that doubled subsidy duration has no such effect. We find the opposite pattern when we …

exploit a Swedish reform which reduced UI duration from 90 to 60 weeks for a group of older unemployed workers in a setting … program. Our results show that job finding increased as a result of the shorter duration of passive benefits. The time profile …

This paper investigates whether more general education reduces the risk of future unemployment by examining individuals … longer and more general program reduced the risk of experiencing unemployment during the 2008–2010 recession. Among students … unemployment. This pattern is strongest among male students and the effect is likely to be explained by the increased dropout rate …

participate in adult education programs. We analyze the effect of this on the duration to work and on the wage rate, by applying …