The empirical literature on unemployment insurance has focused on its direct effect on unemployment duration, while the … evidence on the effect of unemployment benefits on unemployment and employment duration in Europe, using individual data from … benefits has a direct negative effect increasing the duration of unemployment spells, there is also a positive indirect effect …

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 …

associated with longer reemployment duration at the individual level. Furthermore, countries with more generous unemployment …-unemployment employment stability ; job match quality ; reemployment duration ; active labour market policy ; unemployment benefits …