unemployment benefits on the other reduce unemployment? Using the recent labour market reform in Germany we find that an improved … agency explains substantial part of the observed post-reform unemployment decline: 34%. If disincentive effects of the agency … discussed unemployment benefits. …

The aim of the paper is to examine the consequences of displacement on unemployment duration. Due to ex-ante asymmetric … signal to the worker resulting in longer unemployment duration. To test this hypothesis we use administrative linked employer …-employee data for Germany which not only contain daily information on unemployment duration but also allows us to control for the …

Many countries rely on monitoring of unemployment insurance and welfare recipients and impose benefit sanctions in case … a function of worker characteristics, unemployment duration, the monitoring technology, worker preferences and the … monitoring intensity and the size of a benefit sanction are endogenously chosen by the planner for each period of unemployment. I …

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 …

search and matching frictions and incorporate a US unemployment insurance experience rating system. Layoff taxes based on … experience rating finance the cost of unemployment benefits and create considerable employment adjustment costs. Our framework … reproduces the negative correlation between vacancies and unemployment, i.e., the Beveridge curve. Simulations show that the …

the unemployment rate diminishes at higher take-up rates. Second, only countries with preexisting STW schemes were able to …

Comprehensive evidence has shown that unemployment can have adverse effects on an individuals' mental and physical …) for on an in ow sample into unemployment in 2006/2007 and utilize a combination of Swedish administrative data on labor …