introduction of a soft constraint appears particularly effective; our results show that the expected unemployment duration falls by …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 participation in active labor market programs, duration limitations …

We evaluate the impact of labour market programmes on unemployment durations in Norway, by means of a distribution …

introduction of a soft constraint appears particularly effective; our results show that the expected unemployment duration falls by …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 participation in active labor market programs, duration limitations …

unemployment spell. We derive simple sufficient-statistics formulae capturing the insurance value and incentive costs of … unemployment benefits paid at different times during the unemployment spell. Our general approach allows to revisit and evaluate in …. We then estimate our sufficient statistics using administrative data on unemployment, income and wealth in Sweden. First …