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 …

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 …

Putting a limit on the duration of unemployment benefits tends to introduce a spike in the job finding rate shortly … unemployed workers who rationally assume that employers will accept delays in the starting date of a new job, especially if these … jobs are permanent. We use a dataset on Slovenian unemployment spells to test this prediction and find supporting evidence …

study points at the changes in Germany's status- and occupation-oriented unemployment benefit regime that has been … relinquished for a larger share of dependent population. Unemployment insurance benefit duration is shorter now and newly created … basic income support for needy persons is not earnings-related anymore. Pressure on unemployed to take up jobs has increased …