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 …

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 …

This paper investigates how a mandatory activation program in Denmark affects the job finding rate of unemployed … unemployed in the period from November 2005 to March 2006 were randomly assigned to the program while the other half was not. It … appears that the activation program is very effective. The median unemployment duration of the control group is 14 weeks …

In an experimental setting some Danish unemployed workers were assigned to an activation program while others were not …. Unemployed who were assigned to the activation program found a job more quickly. We show that the activation effect increases … with the distance between the place of residence of the unemployed worker and the place where the activation took place. We …

It is puzzling that people feel quite unhappy when they become unemployed, while at the same time active labor market … policies are needed to bring unemployed back to work more quickly. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we … investigate whether there is indeed such a puzzle. First, we find that nearly half of the unemployed do not experience a drop in …