employment levels during recessions. However, they can create inefficiency in the labor market, and might limit labor market …

We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the effects of unemployment insurance policies on … unemployment. Our estimates imply that most of the persistent increase in unemployment during the Great Recession can be accounted … for by the unprecedented extensions of unemployment benefit eligibility. In contrast to the existing recent literature …

employment levels during recessions. However, they can create inefficiency in the labor market, and might limit labor market …

We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in Missouri affected search behavior of … estimates to simulate the unemployment rate assuming no market-level externalities. The simulated response, which implies almost … a one percentage point decline in the unemployment rate, closely approximates the estimated change in the unemployment …

sorted across firms and worker-firm matches upon re-employment. We find that the Hartz reforms substantially reduced the … 80 percent of the increased wage loss was because displaced workers found re-employment in lower-wage firms after the … reforms. A disproportionate share of these low-wage firms offer temporary employment services to other firms, and we document …

unemployment benefit eligibility, improving employment services, participation in active labour market policies, monitoring and … the current measures in Slovenia in the area of activation of unemployment benefit recipients and it compares its formal … sanctions. The review lists several recommendations Slovenia should apply to activate unemployment benefit recipients, including …

By how much does an increase in operating effectiveness of a public employment agency (PEA) and a reduction of … unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced … effectiveness of the PEA explains about 20% of the observed post-reform unemployment decline. The role of unemployment benefit …