We empirically investigate how two-tier unemployment compensation schemes affect the profile of re-employment hazards …-employment hazard. Our results indicate that two-tier unemployment compensation schemes might create a long-term unemployment trap: If … employers rank applicants by their duration in unemployment, incentivizing all job seekers to exert higher search efforts may …

This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in … difficult-to-explain trends in the unemployment rate of older German workers …

unemployment after program end we estimate the effect of keeping a subsidized job versus participating in training and taking up a …

reservation wages to decrease. The rate at which job offers arrive is constant over the unemployment duration. These findings …

Unemployment insurance (UI) sanctions in the form of benefit reductions are intended to set disincentives for UI …. -- Unemployment insurance sanctions ; dynamic matching …

gerechtfertigt waren. Wir vergleichen dazu Kohorten, die im März der Jahre 2003 bis 2006 in Arbeitslosigkeit eingetreten sind und zu …

Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and …

In 2005, the unemployment compensation for long-term unemployed was reduced in Germany. We examine how this reform … affected the transition probability to employment. Additionally, we inspect how this effect varies over unemployment duration … raised the transition probability of short-term unemployed. The effect is even higher, the longer the unemployment duration …

We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment … balances in these accounts are available to them during periods of unemployment. The government is able to undertake balanced … model for the high unemployment countries of Europe. Our results suggest that this policy reform would significantly change …