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. …

neighborhood unemployment rate. Other neighborhood characteristics such as the average housing price are not important. From this … we conclude that for young Dutch welfare recipients a high local unemployment rate has a negative spillover effect on the …

In the past decades several features of U.S. unemployment dynamics have been investigated empirically. The original … focus of research was on the duration of unemployment. In later studies the cyclicality of incidence and duration …, compositional effects and duration dependence of the exit rate out of unemployment have been investigated. Unlike the partial …

neighborhood unemployment rate. Other neighborhood characteristics such as the average housing price are not important. From this … we conclude that for young Dutch welfare recipients a high local unemployment rate has a negative spillover effect on the …

The paper, the first one to empirically examine whether individual accounts internalize the cost of unemployment …, estimates the determinants of job finding rates of unemployment benefit recipients under the Chilean program. This is a unique … unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs). The paper shows that beneficiaries who use solidarity funding are less likely to …

In the past decades several features of U.S. unemployment dynamics have been investigated empirically. The original … focus of research was on the duration of unemployment. In later studies the cyclicality of incidence and duration …, compositional effects and duration dependence of the exit rate out of unemployment have been investigated. Unlike the partial …

neighborhood unemployment rate. Other neighborhood characteristics such as the average housing price are not important. From this … we conclude that for young Dutch welfare recipients a high local unemployment rate has a negative spillover effect on the …