This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in … with retirement policies. Accounting for interactions across UI and retirement institutions also helps explain otherwise … difficult-to-explain trends in the unemployment rate of older German workers …

The job finding rate of Unemployment Insurance (UI) recipients declines in the initial months of unemployment and then … effort. The panel structure allows us to observe how search effort evolves within individual over the unemployment spell. We …

by unemployment insurance. The model features a detailedspecification of the tax and transfer system, including … unemployment insurance benefitswhich depend on an individual's employment and earnings history. The model also capturesthe … of unemployment insurance operationalized as a reduction in the entitlementperiod generates a larger increase in …

unemployment. We use this framework tostudy the employment eects of transforming a traditional welfare state, as is cur-rently in …