While there is a fairly broad consensus regarding the potential adverse effects of generous unemployment benefit …. Findings indicate that although it takes time for unemployment benefit reforms to pay off, such reforms do not appear to entail … any negative short-run effects. There is however some suggestive evidence that reducing unemployment benefits could have …

unemployment benefits. We use the 1999 unemployment insurance reform of Portugal, a quasi-natural experiment. The reform increased … the maximum duration of benefits for three groups of agents and maintained all features of the unemployment insurance for … successfully predicts the effects on the unemployment rate, the labor force participation, and the levels of unemployment and …

paper examines the effect of labor-market institutions on the fluctuations of age-specific unemployment rates based on panel …The way age-specific unemployment rates fluctuate over the business cycle differs significantly across countries. This …

Initial claims for unemployment insurance averaged a stubbornly high 468,000 in the year ending December 2010, but have …

During the current labor market downturn, unemployment duration has reached levels well above its previous highs …. Analysis of unemployment data suggests that extended unemployment insurance benefits have not been important factors in the … increase in the duration of unemployment or in the elevated unemployment rate. …