discontinuities in eligibility for severance pay and extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits in Austria. Analyzing data for over …

Standard models suggest that adverse labor demand shocks will lead to bigger employment losses if institutional factors … explains the contrast between the United States, where real wages fell over the 1980s and aggregate employment expanded … vigorously, and Europe, where real wages were (roughly) constant and employment was stagnant. We test this hypothesis by …

In this paper, we review the literature on the "spike" in unemployment exit rates around benefit exhaustion, and … unemployment spells are measured has a large effect on the magnitude of the spike at exhaustion, both in existing studies and in … defined by the time spent on the unemployment system. In Austria, the exit rate from registered unemployment rises by over 200 …

Unemployment Insurance system to measure the effects of imperfect experience-rating on temporary layoffs and other types of … unemployment. We find a strong negative association between the degree of experience-rating and the rate of temporary layoff … unemployment, with the largest effect in recessionary years and the smallest effect in expansionary years. Increases in the degree …

receive unemployment insurance benefits. Using samples of unemployed workers from the March Current Population Survey, we …This paper presents new evidence on the reasons for the recent decline in the fraction of unemployed workers who … estimate the fraction of unemployed workers who are potentially eligible for benefits in each year and compare this to the …

unemployment benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, and discuss implementation issues that may arise in similar …

We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment …

institutional settings where a policy variable (such as weekly unemployment benefits) is determined by an observed but potentially … unemployment insurance benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, where the benefit schedule has kinks at the minimum and …

, the employment rate of teenage workers rose, while their school enrollment rate fell …

models for the estimated program effect (for studies that model the probability of employment) and for the sign and … unemployment; (4) active labor market programs are more likely to show positive impacts in a recession …