. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and …. The German labor market has been plagued by high and persistent unemployment in the last two decades in combination with a … speed and depth of the reforms are remarkable, mainly aimed at activating people by increasing their incentives to take up …

administrative data from the Austrian unemployment registers which allow us to distinguish between caseworker assignment and actual … characteristics on each stage of the participation process. We find that beside policy regulations individual worker incentives play … an important role in determining program participation. -- Unemployment ; active labor market policy ; evaluation …

, an additionally provided monthly application decreases the length of spells by 4%. In line with theory, we further find …

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … relative attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness …

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 …

egalitarian outcomes are achieved while work incentives and thus a high employment rate crucial for the financial viability of the … immigration, which may change the composition of the population in the ability and/or preference dimension. -- work incentives …

Job search requirements constrain the effort choice of unemployment insurance recipients by enforcing a minimum number … react to this constraint. Standard job search theory predicts that requirements affect each job seeker relative to her … search theory. …

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. …

. This paper investigates the importance of incentives inherent in the tax-benefit system for the individual decision to take … incentives at the extensive margin measured by the Participation Tax Rate (PTR), particularly for low-income individuals. Work … incentives are even higher if the time horizon is extended to more than one year, pointing at an overestimation of the …