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 …

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress expanded unemployment insurance (UI) benefits in three ways. First, it … are eligible to receive UI via the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program. Third, it extended the duration of …

The single most likely way to leave the unemployment insurance (UI) register in Hungary is not by getting a job but by …

The benefits of implementing Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts (UISAs) are studied in the presence of the …

This paper considers the problem of optimal unemployment insurance (UI) in a repeated moral hazard framework. Unlike … deliver. Second, it breaks the identity between unemployment payments and consumption. And third, it hardens the encouragement … of search effort. The optimal unemployment insurance system in an economy with a hidden labor market is simple, with an …

This paper presents new information on activity-related eligibility criteria for unemployment and related benefits in … OECD and EU countries in 2017, comparing the strictness of "demanding" elements built into unemployment benefits across … countries and over time. Eligibility criteria for unemployment benefits determine what claimants need to do to successfully …