also find that the quality of the post-unemployment jobs was not affected by the activation program. Both findings confirm …

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

find that for beneficiaries using the SF, the pattern of job finding rates over the duration of unemployment is consistent …This study examines the determinants of job-finding rates of unemployment benefit recipients under the Chilean program … the form of unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) - so as to mitigate the moral hazard problem of traditional …

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

This paper analyzes the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort … featuring indefinite payments of benefits and a system with a time limit on unemployment benefit receipt.The optimal sanction …

) 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 … the maximum duration of benefits.We use these results to split up the total costs to unemployment insurance funds into …

This paper explores the optimal interaction between the tax system and unemployment compensation in insuring people … 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 …

lower the quality of post-unemployment jobs both in terms of job duration as well as in terms of earnings. The net effect of …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 …

-state unemployment rate.We draw on policy changes in Austria that extended maximum benefit duration from 30 to 52 weeks for individuals …This paper uses microdata to evaluate the impact of an increase in maximum bene.t duration on the steady … impact of benefit duration on labor market flows and find that (i) the policy changes lead to an increase in the steady …