The labor market effects of pension reform stem from retirement behavior and from job search and hours worked of prime …

The labor market effects of pension reform stem from retirement behavior and from job search and hours worked of prime …

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 …