model for the high unemployment countries of Europe. Our results suggest that this policy reform would significantly change … people’s employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the …We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment …

model for the high unemployment countries of Europe. Our results suggest that this policy reform would significantly change … people?s employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the …We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB)systems by an unemployment …

) is unlikely to achieve significant reductions in unemployment. Rather, labour market reform becomes particularly … labour market institutions (e.g. unemployment benefits, job security legislation and payroll taxes) have complementary … effects on unemployment; and thus (b) that policies aimed at reforming these institutions are also complementary. These policy …

on several employment states for diverse (sub-)groups of employable welfare recipients. Besides unemployed, we also … to enter employment and to exit welfare, at least in the short run. The positive effects tend to work stronger in the …

support the reallocation flow from unproductive to productive firms, helping to reduce unemployment. Low employment protection …The paper provides a theoretical rationale for flexicurity policies, which consist of low employment protection …, generous unemployment insurance and active labor market programmes. It analyzes in which conditions flexicurity can be optimal …

This study provides the first comprehensive analysis of sanction effects on post-welfare employment quality in Europe … using the outcome variables daily wage, yearly income, and covering job stability with the durations of three employment … analyses reveal highly significant and strongly negative effects of benefit sanctions on the quality of post-welfare employment …

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 …

We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment …

. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and …. The German labor market has been plagued by high and persistent unemployment in the last two decades in combination with a … be seen how future governments react to worsened economic conditions in light of these experiences. -- Unemployment …