program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non …-eligible unemployed in treated regions, and a difference-in-difference identification strategy to control for preexisting differences … unemployment duration and probability of long term unemployment decrease. These effects are the largest when the program intensity …

costs due to changes in the unemployment insurance system and costs due to behavioural responses of unemployed workers …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 …

program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non …-eligible unemployed in treated regions, and a difference-in-difference identification strategy to control for preexisting differences … unemployment duration and probability of long term unemployment decrease. These effects are the largest when the program intensity …

The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This Paper … evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 … programme was an endogenous policy response to a crisis affecting individuals with severe labour market problems. The main …

We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment …-compliance tax generates strong employment effects for low-wage firms and weak effects for high-wage firms. We also find that growing …

It is widely believed that the integration of European economies will have little impact on labour mobility. This does … not mean, however, that European labour markets will be unaffected by the process of economic integration. In this paper …

reductions in other sectors. The union campaign aimed to increase employment through ‘work-sharing’, and is being emulated in the …