This paper investigates how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects the quality of post-unemployment … jobs. It takes advantage of a natural experiment introduced by a change in Slovenia's unemployment insurance law that … the post-unemployment jobs remained unaffected: the paper finds that the law change had no effect on either the type of …

The paper describes and evaluates unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) – a relatively new and not well …-known way of providing unemployment benefits. The UISAs reduce work disincentives by allowing recipients to keep their own … unused unemployment contributions, and offer the possibility to extend coverage to informal sector workers. In addition, if …

The paper analyses the effects of a 2011 increase in the unemployment benefit replacement rate on the job-finding rate … of Slovenian benefit recipients. Using registry data on the universe of Slovenian unemployment benefit recipients, we … decreased the hazard rate of the transition from unemployment to employment, with an implied elasticity of the hazard rate with …

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 …

individuals, making sure that any unemployment spell that individual may undergo precedes the occurrence of a disease, and relies … on mass-layoffs to provide an additional layer of exogeneity to unemployment. Second, it is one of the first papers using …. And third, it treats the health effects of unemployment as part of a dose-response relationship, with the share of time …