Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante threat of sanctions. Based on a large inflow sample into unemployment … unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We estimate multispell …

the same individuals sampled from the inflow into unemployment. First, they were asked for their perceived probability of …

As unemployment rises across the European Union (EU) it is important to understand the extent to which the incomes of … of this increase in unemployment. This paper uses the EU tax-benefit model EUROMOD to explore these issues, comparing … unemployment benefit is payable, the household situation of the unemployed person, and across countries. -- unemployment ; European …

In this paper we explore the potential of a new unemployment insurance benefit at EMU level to improve the income … stringent eligibility conditions, to increase generosity where current unemployment benefits are low relative to earnings and to … national unemployment insurance schemes and differences in labour force characteristics across countries, mainly in the …

We analyze different options for the design of a common unemployment insurance system for the euro area (EA). We assess … degree of cross-country transfers. In the baseline, we focus on a non-contingent scheme covering short-term unemployment and … find that it would have absorbed a significant fraction of the unemployment shock in the recent crisis. However, four …

The idea of a common unemployment benefit system for the European Monetary Union (EMU) has provoked increasing interest … introduction of an EMU unemployment insurance (EMU-UI) scheme, for a selected number of countries of the Monetary Union. Our …