lower the quality of post-unemployment jobs both in terms of job duration as well as in terms of earnings. The net effect of …This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions ,i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits … as punishment for noncompliance with eligibility requirements. In addition to the effects on unemployment durations, we …

unemployment as well as across different subgroups of participants. We find that participating in short-term training reduces the … remaining time in unemployment and moderately increases job stability. Long-term training programs initially prolong the … remaining time in unemployment, but once the scheduled program end is reached participants exit to employment at a much faster …

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

This paper analyses crucial design features of unemployment insurance (UI) policies. We examine three different means … of improving the efficiency of UI: the duration of benefit payments, monitoring in conjunction with sanctions, and … 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 …. We are particularly concerned with three instruments, viz. the duration of benefit payments (or more generally the time …

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 …

This paper analyses crucial design features of unemployment insurance (UI) policies. We examine three different means … of improving the efficiency of UI: the duration of benefit payments, monitoring in conjunction with sanctions, and … workfare. To that end we develop a quantitative model of equilibrium unemployment. The model features worker heterogeneity in …

estimate the effects of the program. The results suggest that the program increased transitions from unemployment to work …

building upon the timing-of-events approach, we estimate multivariate discrete time duration models taking selection based on … the typical program duration of twelve months, probably driven by reduced job search effort during participation resulting …. Additional results, however, suggest that female and highly skilled participants leave unemployment quicker than other groups …

exploit a Swedish reform which reduced UI duration from 90 to 60 weeks for a group of older unemployed workers in a setting … program. Our results show that job finding increased as a result of the shorter duration of passive benefits. The time profile …