. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and …. The German labor market has been plagued by high and persistent unemployment in the last two decades in combination with a …

We use administrative data to examine the effect of a 50% benefit cut for young unemployed workers in Ireland during … the Great Recession. Because the cut applied only to new benefit claims, claimants whose unemployment start dates differed …-in-Difference analyses. While we find no impact on unemployment duration for those aged 20–21, the benefit cut significantly reduced duration …

pension payments. Therefore, such accounts make unemployment less attractive, intensify job search, and raise employment. In … bargaining creates additional impediments for the positive employment consequences of UISAs …Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts (UISAs) entitle workers to unemployment benefits at the expense of future …

Using recent results in the measurement error literature, we show that the official U.S. unemployment rates … substantially underestimate the true levels of unemployment, due to misclassification errors in labor force status in Current …. During the period of 1996 to 2009, the corrected monthly unemployment rates are 1 to 4.6 percentage points (25% to 45 …

that the two dimensions of the extensive margin, the employment rate and the participation rate, explain the most of the …

This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of … estimates show that measured employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment … official definitions in apparently minor ways can produce alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but …

This paper examines the impact of unemployment insurance (UI) on aggregate employment by exploiting cross …, we find no statistically significant impact of increasing UI generosity on aggregate employment. Our point estimates are … uniformly small in magnitude, and the most precise estimates rule out employment-to-population ratio reductions in excess of 0 …

potential indirect effect on employment stability through a more efficient matching process, as the unemployed can search for a … evidence on the effect of unemployment benefits on unemployment and employment duration in Europe, using individual data from … per cent increase relative to the average employment duration, compensating for the additional time spent in unemployment …

unemployed who are eligible to means-tested unemployment assistance after the exhaustion of unemployment benefit, but not for …We analyse benefit-entitlement effects and the likely impact of the recent reform of the unemployment compensation … system on the duration of unemployment in Germany on the basis of a flexible discrete-time hazard rate model estimated on pre …

This paper estimates the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Job search theory implies that if … Unemployment Insurance (UI) extensions do not affect wages conditional on the month of unemployment exit, then reservation wages do … not bind on average. Then, UI extensions affect mean wages only through unemployment durations and are valid instrumental …