change in the unemployment rate. Many estimated effects are larger for males than females. Notably, strong evidence of …

We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI …

Young adults entering the labor force typically have little access to unemployment insurance or other formal insurance …

Based on a sequence of reforms in the Norwegian unemployment insurance (UI) system, we show that activity-oriented UI … on unconditional UI entitlements, and high sanction probabilities - deliver substantially shorter unemployment spells … introduction of a soft constraint appears particularly effective; our results show that the expected unemployment duration falls by …