employers rank applicants by their duration in unemployment, incentivizing all job seekers to exert higher search efforts may …We empirically investigate how two-tier unemployment compensation schemes affect the profile of re-employment hazards …. We exploit the aggravation of an existing two-tier scheme in Germany in 2005 and estimate its impact on re …

Exploiting changes in Denmark's unemployment insurance (UI) system — a ‘natural experiment' that reduced the period … the effect of benefits exhaustion found in studies of finite-duration UI systems. This article re-examines Geerdsen …

In 2005, the unemployment benefits for long-term unemployed were reduced in Germany. We investigate the effect of this … reform on the transition probability from unemployment to employment using a large German administrative spell data set (SIAB … were less affected than East Germans. For short-term unemployed the effect is increasing over unemployment duration while …