A key question in labor market research is how the unemployment insurance system affects unemployment rates and labor … 76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact unexplained by existing research focusing on job finding rates … causally link our empirical findings to the reduction in long-term unemployment benefits using a heterogeneous-agent labor …

This paper studies how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects individuals' job search behavior and re …-employment outcomes. We exploit an unexpected reform of the German unemployment insurance scheme in 2008, which increased the potential … over the first two months of unemployment. Treatment effects on the reservation wage are positive but statistically …

abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers over 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its …

In July 2004, the Belgian government intensified monitoring within the Unemployment Insurance scheme. Workers claiming … unemployment benefits for more than 13 months are notified that past job-search behavior will be monitored 8 months later. In one …

makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We evaluate a two-part policy reform in Belgium to study whether … conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits for education-leavers on age or schooling attainment can affect … educational achievements. The results show that the prospect of financial loss in case of unemployment can significantly raise …

-experimental variation in nonemployment values arises from four large reforms of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit levels in Austria. We … bargaining power, with low labor force attachment, with high predicted unemployment duration, among job switchers and recently … unemployed workers, in areas of high unemployment, in firms with flexible pay policies, and when considering firm …

We estimate impacts of male job loss, female job loss, and male unemployment benefits on domestic violence in Brazil … pervasive increases in domestic violence. Exploiting a discontinuity in unemployment insurance eligibility, we find that … and an increase in exposure of victims to perpetrators, with unemployment benefits partially offsetting the income shock …