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 …

, an additionally provided monthly application decreases the length of spells by 4%. In line with theory, we further find …

, an additionally provided monthly application decreases the length of spells by 4%. In line with theory, we further find …

Unemployment benefits often reduce incentives to search for a job. Policymakers have responded to this behaviour by … setting minimum job search requirements, by monitoring to check that unemployment benefit recipients are engaged in the … search monitoring and benefit sanctions reduce unemployment duration and increase job entry in the short term. There is some …

The basic trade union model is extended to allow for a more sophisticated unemployment benefit system consisting of two … utility of union members can reduce unemployment …

For every payment, there is an equal and opposite tax. In the study of unemployment insurance, economists have … unexamined the influence on labor demand of the unique tax that finances it. Experience rating in unemployment insurance presents …

Extended unemployment benefits programs are triggered by the state insured unemployment rate while intrastate demand … conditions often vary dramatically. Some tight local labor markets may therefore exhibit a large effect of extended unemployment …, the entitlement effect is stronger in low unemployment labor markets. This finding is robust across a number of …

This paper finds that unemployment insurance sanctions substantially raise individual transition rates from … unemployment to employment. Sanctions are punitive benefits reductions that are supposed to make recipients comply with certain … of individuals who started collecting unemployment insurance in the Netherlands in 1992. We deal with various forms of …

Economists often expect unemployment insurance (UI) benefits to elevate unemployment rates because recipients may … more gradually in 2013 likely contributed to declines in unemployment and participation rates beyond what one would expect … transitions from unemployment to dropping out of the labor force, thus reducing the unemployment rate and the labor force …

Although a meaningful percentage of firms are created out of unemployment and current active labor market policies in … Europe often subsidize unemployed individuals to start their own businesses, little is known about the role of unemployment … extensive margin of (self-)employment and on unemployment duration. We find heterogeneous effects on the extensive margin: while …