, employment, and post-unemployment earnings using register data that contain PES and case-worker identifiers for about 130,000 job …Public Employment Service (PES) agencies and caseworkers (CW) often have substantial leeway in the design and … (carrots) and restrictive (sticks) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations …

% of pre-birth earnings. We study the mandate's impact on women's employment and earnings around the birth of their first …

This paper studies a program that extends the maximum duration of unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to 209 weeks … regions to identify the effect of extended benefits on unemployment duration. Results indicate that the duration of job search … is prolonged by at least .09 weeks per additional week of benefits among men, whereas unemployment duration increases by …

benefits strongly increase due to job loss. -- Social cost of unemployment ; health ; job loss ; plant closure …

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20%. Moreover, we find that …

evaluate the effects on post-unemployment employment stability, on exits from the labor market and on earnings. In our analysis …. Warnings do not affect subsequent employment stability but do reduce post-unemployment earnings. Actual benefit reductions …This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions, i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits …

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 … Active Labor Market Programs and benefit entitlement on the duration of unemployment in Switzerland. In the evaluation we …

-experimental situation from which a lot can be learned about the impact of unemployment insurance rules on the dynamics of employment … for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum …, unemployment, and wages. We find that the REBP led to a tremendous increase in unemployment, which was due to both an increase in …

This paper investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment duration. Data from the Swiss … positive effect on the exit rate out of unemployment. Moreover, the stricter the sanction policy the shorter is the duration of … unemployment of the non-sanctioned. This can be taken as evidence of a strong ex-ante effect of a strict sanction policy. …