and Income Security (EIS) to strengthen the inclusive function and stabilisation impact of national unemployment insurance …

, generous unemployment insurance and active labor market programmes. It analyzes in which conditions flexicurity can be optimal …, with firms more likely to survive and thus not exposing much their workers to unemployment risk. Activation programmes … support the reallocation flow from unproductive to productive firms, helping to reduce unemployment. Low employment protection …

unemployment insurance, job retention and employment protection, as they play an additional and potentially prominent role in …

tiers of social protection, in particular upstream systems such as unemployment insurance, job retention and employment …

unemployment. Labor market regulations, unemployment benefits, and high levels of public consumption in many European countries …

This paper analyses the effect of unemployment insurance generosity and active labour market policy on reemployment … to identify policy effects at the micro and macro level. Empirical evidence suggests that unemployment benefit receipt is … associated with longer reemployment duration at the individual level. Furthermore, countries with more generous unemployment …

The empirical literature on unemployment insurance has focused on its direct effect on unemployment duration, while the … unemployment insurance system aiming at reducing high European unemployment rates should consider both effects. This paper provides … evidence on the effect of unemployment benefits on unemployment and employment duration in Europe, using individual data from …

The existing studies of unemployment benefit and unemployment duration suggest that reforms that lower either the level … or the duration of benefits should reduce unemployment. Despite the large number of such reforms implemented in Europe in … unemployment. This paper also provides an explanation for this fact by exploring the interactions between unemployment benefits and …

The social costs of unemployment, in terms of unemployment's impact on European citizens' life satisfaction, relate … strongly to unemployment duration. At any level of general joblessness, reducing long-term unemployment is more important than … reducing the number of people unemployed at any point in time. -- unemployment ; unemployment duration ; life satisfaction …

. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again consistent with the basic search model …