This paper investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment duration. Data from the Swiss … positive effect on the exit rate out of unemployment. Moreover, the stricter the sanction policy the shorter is the duration of … unemployment of the non-sanctioned. This can be taken as evidence of a strong ex-ante effect of a strict sanction policy. …

find that for beneficiaries using the SF, the pattern of job finding rates over the duration of unemployment is consistent … strong support to the idea that UISAs can improve work incentives. -- Unemployment insurance ; unemployment duration …This study examines the determinants of job-finding rates of unemployment benefit recipients under the Chilean program …

We study how changes in the maximum benefit duration affect the inflow into unemployment in the Netherlands. Until … disappeared. -- Unemployment insurance ; potential benefit duration ; unemployment inflow … August 2003, workers who became unemployed after age 57.5 were entitled to unemployment benefits until the age of 65, after …

This paper investigates how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects the quality of post-unemployment … the contract (temporary vs. permanent), the duration of the post-unemployment jobs, or the wage earned in this job …. -- unemployment insurance ; potential benefit duration ; job separation rates ; post-unemployment wages …

lower the quality of post-unemployment jobs both in terms of job duration as well as in terms of earnings. The net effect of … to the ex ante effect. -- Benefit sanctions ; earnings effects ; unemployment duration ; competing-risk duration models …This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions ,i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits …

lower the quality of post-unemployment jobs both in terms of job duration as well as in terms of earnings. The net effect of … to the ex ante effect. -- Benefit sanctions ; earnings effects ; unemployment duration ; competing-risk duration models …This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions, i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits …

making benefit payments conditional on program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. We evaluate the effect of … Active Labor Market Programs and benefit entitlement on the duration of unemployment in Switzerland. In the evaluation we … participation. Taken together, this leads to the conclusion that programs prolong unemployment duration for men, but tend to shorten …

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

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 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 …