This study examines the determinants of job-finding rates of unemployment benefit recipients under the Chilean program … the form of unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) – so as to mitigate the moral hazard problem of traditional … unemployment insurance programs. Our study is the first one to empirically investigate whether UISAs improve work incentives. We …

heterogeneity into account. Our results indicate that participation in JCS increases the unemployment duration mainly due to … participants leave unemployment quicker than other groups, which results in highly skilled women benefiting from participation …. However, we find no significant impact on post-unemployment employment stability. Our results are robust to allowing for …

efficient to intervene earlier in order to prevent long-term unemployment rather than to cure it, the climate of austerity in … of the unemployment spell. It comprises of a collective information session followed by a short one-on-one interview. In … in the first four months after the start of the unemployment spell, and the early intervention seems especially …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

week in unemployment insurance (UI) benefit payments from late March through July 2020. This unprecedented increase in UI …

, Germany, and the United Kingdom, we document striking similarities in spatial differences in unemployment, vacancies, job … quantitatively rationalizes why differences in job-separation rates have primary importance in inducing differences in unemployment … across space while changes in the job-finding rate are the main driver in unemployment fluctuations over the business cycle. …

introducing non-search activity requirements for unemployment benefit recipients. The Mutual Obligations Initiative (MOI) required … people aged 18-34 receiving unemployment benefits to undertake a range of non-search activities (e.g., volunteering, training … a lower incidence of unemployment benefit receipt in comparison to those whose fathers were not. More detailed …

In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work, labour market … participation, inequality and welfare in Germany. Unemployment fell because the Hartz IV reform induced a large fraction of the long …. Overall we find that Germany increased welfare as unemployment fell. …

We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in Missouri affected search behavior of … estimates to simulate the unemployment rate assuming no market-level externalities. The simulated response, which implies almost … a one percentage point decline in the unemployment rate, closely approximates the estimated change in the unemployment …