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. 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 …

have higher wage dispersion. We also examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and job search …

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 …

In contrast to the recently decreasing unemployment rates in the EU, long-term unemployment remains at alarming levels … standard measures of long-term unemployment and alternative measures of long-term non-employment. Next, we take a closer look …

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 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 …

satisfaction of European citizens is affected by employment protection and the level and duration of unemployment benefit payments … nearly neutralize each other. -- unemployment benefit ; employment protection ; macroeconomic uncertainty ; cost …