, unemployment, and out-of-thelabor- force for the German labor market between January/February 1983 and November/ December 1994. The … monthly employment and unemployment rates and the monthly transition intensities between the states of employment …. Overall, the German labor market displays a high level of persistence, but important differences exist across demographic …

This paper investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment duration. Data from the Swiss … labor market allow making a distinction between the effect of a warning that a person is not complying with eligibility … positive effect on the exit rate out of unemployment. Moreover, the stricter the sanction policy the shorter is the duration of …

The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This paper … evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 … program was an endogenous policy response to a crisis affecting individuals with severe labor market problems. The main …

cases, in particular for steel workers, entering unemployment meant withdrawal from the labor force. Finally, we show that …This paper analyzes the impact of the Austrian Regional Extended Benefit Program (REBP) on the labor market outcomes … for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum …

Swiss policy makers created a unique link between unemployment benefits and Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs) by … Active Labor Market Programs and benefit entitlement on the duration of unemployment in Switzerland. In the evaluation we … making benefit payments conditional on program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. We evaluate the effect of …

, unemployment, and out-of-thelabor- force for the German labor market between January/February 1983 and November/ December 1994. The … monthly employment and unemployment rates and the monthly transition intensities between the states of employment …. Overall, the German labor market displays a high level of persistence, but important differences exist across demographic …

The existing literature assumes that unemployment insurance (UI) affects the labor market through the job finding rate … analysis of optimal UI should take a more comprehensive view of how UI affects the labor market. …

It is often argued that the labor market outcomes of several "problem groups" of German workers suffer … German unemployment in the long term, and the cyclical sensitivity of the unemployment experience across demographic groups …. The analysis moves beyond that of unemployment rates to a detailed investigation of transition rates from employment to …

This paper estimates causal effects of two Polish active labor market policies - Training and Intervention Works - on … employment probabilities. Using data from the 18th wave of the Polish Labor Force Survey we discuss three stages of an …-treatment labor market status. Our findings suggest that Training raises employment probability, while Intervention Works seems to …