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 … 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 … unemployment to employment. We take advantage of the fact that the reforms had quasi-experimental features where the "treatments …

. 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 …

This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis", according to which the behavior of the … labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity and … the equilibrating mechanisms to ensure unemployment invariance; in particular, other markets may perform part of the …

) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations, employment, and postunemployment …Public Employment Service (PES) agencies and caseworkers (CW) often have substantial leeway in the design and … intensive carrots and sticks regimes each reduce unemployment durations, but with carrots regimes this raises earnings whereas …

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 …

This paper analyses crucial design features of unemployment insurance (UI) policies. We examine three different means … workfare. To that end we develop a quantitative model of equilibrium unemployment. The model features worker heterogeneity …

This paper provides a review of the recent literature on how incentives in unemployment insurance (UI) can be improved …

This paper analyzes the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort … featuring indefinite payments of benefits and a system with a time limit on unemployment benefit receipt. The optimal sanction …

exploit a Swedish reform which reduced UI duration from 90 to 60 weeks for a group of older unemployed workers in a setting …