evaluate the relative effectiveness of these two programmes in Romania. While I find that employment services (ES) are, on …, compared to non-participation, ES are effective for workers with little access to informal search channels, and SBA works for … less-qualified workers and those living in rural areas. When comparing ES to SBA, I find that ES tend to be more efficient …

With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate …. In this paper, we review the recent theoretical and empirical evidence on the labor market effects of UI design. We also … discuss policy issues related to UI design, including the structure of benefits, the role of liquidity constraints and the …

Unemployment Insurance (UI) scheme in which job search requirements are imposed on UI recipients with hyperbolic preferences. We … claimants have the opportunity to withdraw from the UI scheme, their long-run utility can even be lower than in the absence of …

This paper studies how changes in extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefit affect the duration of unemployment. We … separation from the previous job in the Japanese UI system which determines a worker's maximum potential UI benefit duration at … disincentive effects of UI benefit is weaker among UI recipients with firm-specific human capital, the results suggest that …