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 …

unemployment, there is little comprehensive evidence about the effects of activation during recessions. Here we evaluate a large … activation programme introduced in Portugal in 2012, a time of very high unemployment. This programme required specific … unemployment benefit recipients to meet jobcentre caseworkers and then participate in active labour market policies. Our analysis …

did not affect total post-unemployment earnings indicating that the positive effects on job finding and job turnover …

We present a proposal for reforming unemployment assistance in Germany through the introduction of unemployment … accounts (UAs). Instead of paying taxes that finance the unemployment assistance, employed people make ongoing contributions to … their UAs and can make withdrawals from these accounts during periods of unemployment. The aim of this policy proposal is to …