We study how job seekers' understanding of complex unemployment benefit rules affects their labor market performance … unemployment benefit rules and their personal benefit entitlements. Second, we show that a low-cost information strategy using a …

This paper studies how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects early job search behavior and re …-employment outcomes. We exploit an unexpected reform of the German unemployment insurance (UI) scheme in 2008, which increased the … duration of individuals entering UI after the reform. Among individuals who got treated at later stages of their unemployment …

This paper studies how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects individuals’ job search behavior and re …-employment outcomes. We exploit an unexpected reform of the German unemployment insurance scheme in 2008, which increased the potential … over the first two months of unemployment. Treatment effects on the reservation wage are positive but statistically …

. The data are from a randomized experiment conducted in the Netherlands. They include registers of post-unemployment … monitoring effects on post-unemployment outcomes. We find that the option to climb the job ladder reduces substitution between … search channels during unemployment and compensates for adverse long-run effects of monitoring on wages. We use the …

This paper studies how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects individuals' job search behavior and re …-employment outcomes. We exploit an unexpected reform of the German unemployment insurance scheme in 2008, which increased the potential … over the first two months of unemployment. Treatment effects on the reservation wage are positive but statistically …

In many European countries, labor markets are characterized by high regional disparities in terms of unemployment rates …

Findings of prolonged non-employment spells due to more generous unemployment benefits are commonly seen as an …. Instrumental variables estimates further provide causal evidence on the direct relationship between search effort and unemployment …

different large-scale quasi-experiments on changing potential benefit duration (PBD) in unemployment insurance (UI). Thereby, we …