lose employment faster, especially once eligible for new unemployment benefits. Job seekers assigned to JSA have similar …

This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions, i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits … as punishment for noncompliance with eligibility requirements. In addition to the effects on unemployment durations, we … evaluate the effects on post-unemployment employment stability, on exits from the labor market and on earnings. In our analysis …

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20%. Moreover, we find that …

model has been used to estimate the dimension of the shadow economy, and the empirical results revealed that unemployment …

(carrots) and restrictive (sticks) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations …, employment, and post-unemployment earnings using register data that contain PES and case-worker identifiers for about 130,000 job … seekers.The results show that "carrots" and "sticks" treatments prolong unemployment, but carrots increase earnings whereas …

rise, increase the shadow economy, but also other factors like economic ones (unemployment) are considered, too …. Specifically it is shown that the main driving forces are unemployment, self-employment and the tax burden, which have different … by self-employment (22.2%), unemployment (16.9%), personal income taxes (13.1%) and tax morale (9.5%) …

public social expenditures and a high unemployment rate are associated with a small positive (or no) immediate impact on …