theoretic framework. Utilizing an RD design, we analyse responses to a nationwide Swedish youth activation program. We find that … individuals with a high predicted probability of finding work respond to the threat of activation, whereas there is no effect for …

the low-cost short-term training schemes are cost efficient in the short run. -- training ; program evaluation ; duration …

This paper studies how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects individuals’ job search behavior and re … benefit duration from 12 to 15 months for recipients of age 50 to 54. Based on detailed survey data and difference …

Unemployment insurance (UI) sanctions in the form of benefit reductions are intended to set disincentives for UI … recipients to stay unemployed. Empirical evidence about the effects of UI sanctions in Germany is sparse. Using administrative … data we investigate the effects of sanctions on the reemployment probability in West Germany for individuals who entered UI …

based on a framework, that allows for endogenous choice of benefit types and levels, wage taxes or subsidies, and activation … duration dependence in the exit rates to employment and potential depreciation in reemployment wages. We show that the main …

Unemployment Insurance (UI) scheme in which job search requirements are imposed on UI recipients with hyperbolic preferences. We … claimants have the opportunity to withdraw from the UI scheme, their long-run utility can even be lower than in the absence of …

This paper provides a review of the recent literature on how incentives in unemployment insurance (UI) can be improved …. We are particularly concerned with three instruments, viz. the duration of benefit payments (or more generally the time …

of improving the efficiency of UI: the duration of benefit payments, monitoring in conjunction with sanctions, and …, which takes the form of differences in preferences for leisure. All the instruments are ways of limiting the duration of UI …This paper analyses crucial design features of unemployment insurance (UI) policies. We examine three different means …