on their interactions with the profile of unemployment benefits and with active labor market programs …

This paper examines whether or not a prolonged unemployment period can raise the quality of job matching after … unemployment. We focus on job tenure as an indicator of a good quality job match after unemployment. We match two sets of Japanese … seekers receiving unemployment insurance, and the other includes information about job seekers applying for jobs.We first show …

unemployment after program end we estimate the effect of keeping a subsidized job versus participating in training and taking up a …

Unemployment Insurance (UI) scheme in which job search requirements are imposed on UI recipients with hyperbolic preferences. We …

This paper analyses the effect of unemployment insurance generosity and active labour market policy on reemployment … to identify policy effects at the micro and macro level. Empirical evidence suggests that unemployment benefit receipt is … associated with longer reemployment duration at the individual level. Furthermore, countries with more generous unemployment …

In contrast to the recently decreasing unemployment rates in the EU, long-term unemployment remains at alarming levels … standard measures of long-term unemployment and alternative measures of long-term non-employment. Next, we take a closer look …

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 …

focus is to explore how the conditions in the pre-displacement firm affect the duration of unemployment. The empirical … spent in unemployment. The heterogeneity of the signalling effect across various employee subgroups in the economy is also …

This paper studies how changes in extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefit affect the duration of unemployment. We … range of 44-46 who entered unemployment in the same month in the same year, we find that longer maximum benefit durations do … not lead to a decrease in the jobless hazard; the duration of unemployment is not prolonged among jobseekers who have …

Based on a sequence of reforms in the Norwegian unemployment insurance (UI) system, we show that activity-oriented UI … on unconditional UI entitlements, and high sanction probabilities - deliver substantially shorter unemployment spells … introduction of a soft constraint appears particularly effective; our results show that the expected unemployment duration falls by …