This paper studies how changes in the two key parameters of unemployment insurance - the benefit replacement rate (RR …) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) - affect the duration of unemployment.In 1989, the Austrian government made … unemployment insurance more generous by changing, simultaneously, the maximum duration of regular unemployment benefits and the …

Swiss policy makers created a unique link between unemployment benefits and active labor market programs (ALMPs) by … making benefit payments conditional on program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. We evaluate the effect of … ALMPs and benefit entitlement on the duration of unemployment in Switzerland. In the evaluation we allow for selectivity …

This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions, i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits … as punishment for noncompliance with eligibility requirements. In addition to the effects on unemployment durations, we … evaluate the effects on post-unemployment employment stability, on exits from the labor market and on earnings. In our analysis …

-state unemployment rate.We draw on policy changes in Austria that extended maximum benefit duration from 30 to 52 weeks for individuals …-state unemployment rate between 20 % and 50 %; (ii) surprisingly, most of the increase is due to an increase in the inflow into … unemployment, whereas the decrease in the outflow from unemployment is modest; (iii) the effects are stronger for women than for …