different large-scale quasi-experiments on changing potential benefit duration (PBD) in unemployment insurance (UI). Thereby, we …

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 …

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 …

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. …

A European unemployment insurance scheme has gained increased attention as a new and ambitious common fiscal instrument … which could be used for temporary cross-country transfers. Part of the national stabilizers composing unemployment insurance … shocks in order to capture the recent national insurance system and the unemployment insurance union (UIU) design. The model …

's institutional response to the increase in unemployment and poverty triggered by the crisis. The program provided a social safety net … participating in Plan Jefes on the probability of exiting from unemployment. Regardless of the data set, the specification and the …