unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced … effectiveness of the PEA explains about 20% of the observed post-reform unemployment decline. The role of unemployment benefit … the PEA could have had an even higher impact on unemployment reduction if there had been less focus on long …

Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …

According to recent and largely untested theories, unemployment benefits (UBs) could improve the extent and quality of … job reallocation even at the cost of increasing unemployment. In this paper, we use a new set of yearly panel data from a … large number of countries to evaluate empirically the relationship between unemployment benefits and job reallocation …

According to recent and largely untested theories, unemployment benefits (UBs) could improve the extent and quality of … job reallocation even at the cost of increasing unemployment. Using yearly panel data from a large number of countries, we … evaluate empirically the relationship between unemployment benefits and structural change. Unlike previous work assessing the …

been met by in–flows of cross–border workers and, to a lesser extent, immigration. Unemployment has remained low compared …

market flows and reduce unemployment duration. Without attempting to evaluate the specific components of these Hartz reforms …

Unemployment insurance experience rating imposes higher payroll tax rates on firms that have laid off more workers in … unemployment with heterogeneous firms and realistic UI financing. The model predicts that higher experience rating reduces both job ….4%. While the unemployment rate falls on average by .21 percentage points, the effect on tax revenues is ambiguous. The model …

Many empirical studies have confirmed the theoretical prediction that longer-term Unemployment Insurance (UI …) entitlement leads to longer unemployment duration. Most of those studies have examined special programs that provide extra weeks … of unemployment benefits when unemployment rates in the region are higher. Hence, they must distinguish if the longer …

and helps to preserve jobs in the context of a recession by making employment and unemployment less elastic with respect …