defined by the time spent on the unemployment system. In Austria, the exit rate from registered unemployment rises by over 200 …"In this paper, we review the literature on the "spike" in unemployment exit rates around benefit exhaustion, and … present new evidence based on administrative data for a large sample of job losers in Austria. We find that the way …

for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum …-experimental situation from which a lot can be learned about the impact of unemployment insurance rules on the dynamics of employment …, unemployment, and wages. We find that the REBP led to a tremendous increase in unemployment, which was due to both an increase in …