against the risks of involuntary unemployment and low ability.To that end, we introduce search unemployment in a model of … and the unemployment benefit) increases if, for efficient agents, the participation constraint (governing job search …This paper explores the optimal interaction between the tax system and unemployment compensation in insuring people …

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 …

decentralised market economy. Along with the transition of the economy came unemployment. Other than before workers who lost their … from labour force surveys we analyse exit rates out of unemployment. We find that male, young, higher educated job losers … in districts with low unemployment rates have substantially shorter unemployment durations than their counterparts. There …

Abstract Unemployment insurance recipients in the Netherlands were for a long time exempted from the requirement to … actively search for a job when they reached the age of 57.5. We study how this exemption affected the job finding rates of the ….5 is reduced in anticipation of the removal of the search requirement. In addition we find a large negative effect on job …

.It appears that the activation program is very effective.The median unemployment duration of the control group is 14 weeks, while …

We study how changes in the maximum benefit duration affec the inow into unemployment in the Netherlands. Until August … 2003, workers who became un- employed after age 57.5 were entitled to unemployment benefits until the age of 65, after … which they would receive old age pensions. This characteristic made it attractive for workers to enter unemployment shortly …

Abstract: With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the …

This paper investigates how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects the quality of post-unemployment … jobs.It takes advantage of a natural experiment introduced by a change in Slovenia's unemployment insurance law that … contract (temporary vs. permanent), the duration of the post-unemployment jobs, or the wage earned in this job. …