A large literature has documented that the unemployment duration of unemployed individuals increases with the generosity of the unemployment insurance (UI) system, which has been interpreted as the disincentive effect of UI benefits. However, unemployed workers typically also have caseworkers...

The majority of papers analyzing the employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit durations focuses on the duration of the first unemployment spell. In this paper, we make two contributions. First, we use a regression discontinuity design to analyze the long-term effects of...

This paper studies job search behavior in the midst of a pandemic recession. We use long-running panel data from the Netherlands (LISS) and complement the core survey with our own COVID-specific module, conducted in June 2020, surveying job search effort of employed as well as unemployed...

In dieser Stellungnahme äußert sich das IAB zu den Anträgen der Bundestagsfraktion Die Linke: "Gute Arbeit und eine sanktionsfreie Mindestsicherung statt Hartz IV" (Bundestagsdrucksache 18/3549) und "Sanktionen bei Hartz IV und Leistungseinschränkungen bei der Sozialhilfe abschaffen"...