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The Effect of Unemployment Insurance on Unemployment Duration and the Subsequent Employment Stability
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2004
This paper studies the effect of unemployment benefits on the unemployment and subsequent employment duration using … France and Germany. The results indicate that in these two countries, which provide more generous benefits relative to the UK …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261912
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Benefit Entitlement and Unemployment Duration: The Role of Policy Endogeneity
Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2002
The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This paper … evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262747
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How changes in financial incentives affect the duration of unemployment
Lalive, Rafael; van Ours, Jan C.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2004
) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) – affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made … unemployment insurance more generous by changing, simultaneously, the maximum duration of regular unemployment benefits and the … the maximum duration of benefits. We use these results to split up the total costs to unemployment insurance funds into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277283
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How Changes in Financial Incentives Affect the Duration of Unemployment
Lalive, Rafael; van Ours, Jan C.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2004
) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) – affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made … unemployment insurance more generous by changing, simultaneously, the maximum duration of regular unemployment benefits and the … the maximum duration of benefits. We use these results to split up the total costs to unemployment insurance funds into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277286
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Benefit entitlement and unemployment duration : the role of policy endogeneity
Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2002
The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This paper … evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411285
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How to Help Unemployed Find Jobs Quickly: Experimental Evidence from a Mandatory Activation Program
Graversen, Brian Krogh; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper investigates how a mandatory activation program in Denmark affects the job finding rate of unemployed workers. The activation program was introduced in an experimental setting where about half of the workers who became unemployed in the period from November 2005 to March 2006 were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233922
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Benefit Entitlement and Unemployment Duration: The Role of Policy Endogeneity
Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This paper … evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703207
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How Changes in Financial Incentives Affect the Duration of Unemployment
Lalive, Rafael; Ours, Jan C. van; Zweimueller, Josef - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) – affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made … unemployment insurance more generous by changing, simultaneously, the maximum duration of regular unemployment benefits and the … the maximum duration of benefits. We use these results to split up the total costs to unemployment insurance funds into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703608
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The Effect of Unemployment Insurance on Unemployment Duration and the Subsequent Employment Stability
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper studies the effect of unemployment benefits on the unemployment and subsequent employment duration using … France and Germany. The results indicate that in these two countries, which provide more generous benefits relative to the UK …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822917
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How a Mandatory Activation Program Reduces Unemployment Durations: The Effects of Distance
Graversen, Brian Krogh; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
In an experimental setting some Danish unemployed workers were assigned to an activation program while others were not. Unemployed who were assigned to the activation program found a job more quickly. We show that the activation effect increases with the distance between the place of residence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763477