We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job … search guidelines - affect unemployment. In our analysis we find that not only micro effects concerning the behavior of … benefit sanctions are more effective in reducing unemployment than an across the board reduction in the replacement rate. …

Active Labor Market Programs and benefit entitlement on the duration of unemployment in Switzerland. In the evaluation we …Swiss policy makers created a unique link between unemployment benefits and Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs) by … making benefit payments conditional on program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. We evaluate the effect of …

Using Portuguese data, this paper investigates the effects of job search methods on escape rates from unemployment and …

relationship between unemployment and job spell durations; UI benefits increase job matching quality vs unobserved heterogeneity. I …The relationship between unemployment benefit duration, unemployment duration and subsequent job duration is … be correlated with unemployment duration as well as accepted job duration. I examine two potential explanations for the …

In this paper, U.S. data on labor market histories of displaced workers are used to quantify the effect of Unemployment … Insurance Compensation (UIC) on both unemployment and employment durations. This results in the first available assessment of … the effect that UIC has on the fraction of time spent employed. The estimation procedure simultaneously allows for …

The objective of this paper is to examine the extent to which an individual's use of unemployment insurance (UI) as a …

This report analyzes the employment and unemployment experiences of adult foreign-born men, both among themselves and … dependent variables are analyzed, weeks worked (employment) in 1989, unemployment status in the reference week in 1990, and a … proxy measure of unemployment compensation benefits received in 1989. The theoretical model focuses on the job search …