Many countries have a two-tiered unemployment compensation system which provides earnings-related unemployment … insurance for a limited period of time and less generous unemployment assistance thereafter. This study evaluates the effects of … a reform in Finland that increased the level of unemployment assistance by 22%. The reform led to a drop of 9% in the …

show a negative relationship between unemployment duration and the subsequent job duration. Restricting the sample to job … even greater negative effect of unemployment duration on the following job duration. The importance lies not only in the … duration of unemployment. If job seekers keep a high reservation wage and a low search intensity because of the benefits of …

introduction of a soft constraint appears particularly effec-tive; our results show that the expected unemployment duration falls …Based on a sequence of reforms in the Norwegian unemployment insurance (UI) system, we show that activity-oriented UI … regimes - i.e., regimes with a high likelihood of required participa-tion in active labor market programs, duration …

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. …

extensions across states to estimate the overall impact of these extensions on unemployment duration, comparing the experience … extensions on unemployment transitions and duration. We rely on individual variation in benefit availability based on the … duration of unemployment spells and the length of UI benefits available in the state and month, conditional on state economic …

on their interactions with the profile of unemployment benefits and with active labor market programs. …

We analyse the duration of unemployment spells in Poland using data from the Polish Labour Force Survey of August 1994 …. The effects on the duration of unemployment of important socio-economic and demographic characteristics are explored … heterogeneity, we find that the probability of finding a job increases, especially for men, with the duration of unemployment. …

lower the quality of post-unemployment jobs both in terms of job duration as well as in terms of earnings. The net effect of …This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions ,i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits … as punishment for noncompliance with eligibility requirements. In addition to the effects on unemployment durations, we …

lower the quality of post-unemployment jobs both in terms of job duration as well as in terms of earnings. The net effect of …This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions, i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits … as punishment for noncompliance with eligibility requirements. In addition to the effects on unemployment durations, we …

Similar to numerous other European countries, Germany's unemployment policy went through a paradigm shift towards … inference of sanction enforcements on unemployment exit hazards. Based on a novel survey sample, covering the first three years …