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 …

and on specific socio-economic groups in those markets also varied greatly. Institutional arrangements such as employment … protection, unemployment insurance benefits and minimum income support, working time flexibility and wage setting played a … crucial role in determining to what extent the economic crisis led to higher unemployment, wage cuts or income losses and …

With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate …

Unemployment insurance recipients in the Netherlands were for a long time exempted from the requirement to actively … recipients involved. We find evidence that the job finding rate of unemployed workers who were getting close to the age of 57 …

evaluate the effects on post-unemployment employment stability, on exits from the labor market and on earnings. In our analysis …. Warnings do not affect subsequent employment stability but do reduce post-unemployment earnings. Actual benefit reductions …This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions, i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits …

We ran a large randomized controlled experiment among about 150,000 recipients of unemployment benefits insurance in … France in order to evaluate the impact of part-time unemployment benefits. We took advantage of the lack of knowledge of job … impact on the propensity to work while on claim, but reduced the unemployment exit rate, showing important lock-in effects …

August 2003, workers who became unemployed after age 57.5 were entitled to unemployment benefits until the age of 65, after …We study how changes in the maximum benefit duration affect the inflow into unemployment in the Netherlands. Until … which they would receive old age pensions. This characteristic made it attractive for workers to enter unemployment shortly …

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 …

countries have experienced a steep increase in unemployment, employment in other developed economies has not fallen in parallel … with a significant decline in GDP. Our analysis shows that labor market institutions frequently used to study employment … performance can explain the development of unemployment in the situation of crisis in some clusters of countries much better than …

2008-2009 crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of this type of policy and investigates its impact on unemployment … and employment. There is some evidence that short-time compensation programs stabilize permanent employment and reduce … unemployment during downturns. All in all, it seems that short-time work programs used in the recent downturn had significant …