reduction of unemployment benefits on the other reduce unemployment? Using the recent labour market reform in Germany as … background we find that the role of unemployment benefit reduction for the reduction of unemployment is very modest (7% of the … the observed post-reform unemployment decline. If disincentive effects of PEA reforms had been avoided, the effect could …

lose employment faster, especially once eligible for new unemployment benefits. Job seekers assigned to JSA have similar …

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

market flows and reduce unemployment duration. Without attempting to evaluate the specific components of these Hartz reforms …

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 …

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

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 …

We examine empirically the impacts of labor market policies - in terms of unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor … expected unemployment duration, while improving the quality of the resultant job. Participation in ALMP raises the probability …

measures such as monitoring and job search assistance for each period of unemployment in a dynamic environment with negative … should mainly be used at the beginning of unemployment and for short durations. However, contrary to existing schemes, they …