. 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 …

Existing unemployment insurance systems in many OECD countries involve a ceiling on insurable earnings. The result is …

We examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and unemployment using Swedish regional data. To estimate the … effect of an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) on unemployment we exploit the ceiling on UI benefits. The benefit … find fairly robust evidence suggesting that the actual generosity of UI does matter for regional unemployment. Increases in …

unemployment to employment. We take advantage of the fact that the reforms had quasi-experimental features where the "treatments …In 2001 and 2002, Sweden introduced several unemployment insurance reforms. A major innovation in the first reform was … compensation during the first 20 weeks of unemployment. The 2002 reform retained the two-tiered benefit structure but involved also …

This paper examines the incentive effects caused by the interactions between unemployment insurance (UI) and sickness …

The adoption of emergency employment and short-term training programs to provide income support to the population … support system centered on unemployment insurance, complemented with additional mechanisms to provide effective income support …

evaluate the effects on post-unemployment employment stability, on exits from the labor market and on earnings. In our analysis …. Warnings do not affect subsequent employment stability but do reduce post-unemployment earnings. Actual benefit reductions …This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions ,i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits …

benefits. This paper examines whether these interactions affect the transition rate from unemployment to employment. To study …Previous research suggests that there are substantial interactions between the unemployment insurance (UI) and the … evidence suggesting that the reduced sick reÿ­port rate in turn affected the transition rate to employment. …

larger unemployment benefits increased U.K. unemployment post–World War I (WWI). The Benjamin-Kochin (BK) regression is easy … fluctuations created inefficient factor input allocations that drove up interwar U.K. unemployment. …

unemployment to employment. We take advantage of the fact that the reforms had quasi-experimental features where the “treatments …In 2001 and 2002, Sweden introduced several unemployment insurance reforms. A major innovation in the first reform was … compensation during the first 20 weeks of unemployment. The 2002 reform retained the two-tiered benefit structure but involved also …