Unemployment insurance (UI) sanctions in the form of benefit reductions are intended to set disincentives for UI …. The results indicate positive effects on the employment probability in regular employment for both women and men …. -- Unemployment insurance sanctions ; dynamic matching …

recent unemployment benefit reform (Hartz IV). The reform reduced unemployment by only 0.3%. Contrary to general beliefs, we …The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits … aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation using a German micro-data set (SOEP) allows us to discuss the effects of a …

measures such as monitoring and job search assistance for each period of unemployment in a dynamic environment with negative … duration dependence in the exit rates to employment and potential depreciation in reemployment wages. We show that the main … to provide positive search effort. It is used to restore or maintain some minimum exit rate to employment which increases …

unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced … effectiveness of the PEA explains about 20% of the observed post-reform unemployment decline. The role of unemployment benefit …By how much does an increase in operating effectiveness of a public employment agency (PEA) and a reduction of …

Unemployment Insurance (UI) scheme in which job search requirements are imposed on UI recipients with hyperbolic preferences. We …

between high wages and low unemployment risk. A higher marginal tax rate shifts the trade-off in favor of low unemployment … risk, whereas a higher tax burden or unemployment benefit has the opposite effect. Changes in unemployment generate fiscal … externalities, which modify optimal tax formulas. I show that optimal employment subsidies (such as the EITC) phase in with income …

This paper evaluates the impact on the transition to work of a policy reform in Belgium that restricted the access to a … specific unemployment insurance scheme for young labor market entrants. This scheme entitles youths with no or little labor … market experience to unemployment benefits after a waiting period of one year. As of 2015, the Belgian government …

In Belgium unemployment insurance benefits can only exhaust for one category of workers: partners of workers with … (replacement) labour income (mostly women) may loose their entitlement after an unemployment duration ranging from two to eight … benefit exhaustion on the probability of employment : a standard, a before-after and an IV matching estimator. We conclude …

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 … insignificant. In a complementary analysis, we use social security data to investigate how the reform affected re-employment …

in geographical mobility, unemployment and labor market institutions. Rational agents vote over unemployment insurance … unemployment, low geographical mobility and high unemployment insurance, and one American steadystate featuring low unemployment …, high mobility and low unemployment insurance. …