"In 1998 the Slovenian UI system was drastically reformed. The reform reduced the potential duration of unemployment … that the reduction in potential benefit duration had a positive effect on the exit rate out of unemployment -- both to … employment and to other destinations -- at various durations of unemployment spells and for many categories of unemployed workers …

The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries … experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also 'successful' countries in which … the unemployment rate decreased a lot. A common feature of the successful countries is that they implemented a …

job. This paper uses an administrative dataset from the Slovak Republic on durations of individual unemployment spells …