. The data are from a randomized experiment conducted in the Netherlands. They include registers of post-unemployment … monitoring effects on post-unemployment outcomes.We find that the option to climb the job ladder reduces substitution between … search channels during unemployment and compensates for adverse long-run effects of monitoring on wages. We use the …

In many European countries, labor markets are characterized by high regional disparities in terms of unemployment rates …

at unemployment with special emphasis on the schemes complementing compensation from the unemployment insurance scheme … prolonged periods of unemployment. Of special interest is that those complementing systems differ between different sectors of …

unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. If, as a result, labor moves to the … sector with the lower (or equal) vacancy costs, there is an unambiguous decrease in economywide unemployment. With imperfect … intersectoral labor mobility, unemployment in the offshoring sector can rise, with an unambiguous unemployment reduction in the non …

unemployment benefit because an increase in the latter induce firms to create less jobs, which, in turn, reduces the competition in … away from jobs, have higher unemployment rates and lower wages. This is because the housing market amplifies the negative …

Tax Credit in Germany, and the other is a reform to Unemployment Insurance. In both reforms we find very significant …

A large fraction of the eligible unemployed workers does not claim for unemployment insurance (UI) and, among claimants … the sample faces high claiming frictions, many have good employment prospects and exit unemployment quickly. The burden of … little effect on aggregate unemployment duration. Additionally we show that the link between claiming and job search efforts …

We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment … balances in these accounts are available to them during periods of unemployment. The government is able to undertake balanced … model for the high unemployment countries of Europe. Our results suggest that this policy reform would significantly change …

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness absence during …