We ran a large randomized controlled experiment among about 150,000 recipients of unemployment benefits insurance in … France in order to evaluate the impact of part-time unemployment benefits. We took advantage of the lack of knowledge of job … impact on the propensity to work while on claim, but reduced the unemployment exit rate, showing important lock-in effects …

benefit duration (PBD) within the German UI system, we find that longer PBD leads to longer actual unemployment duration for … for those individuals becoming re-employed. With increasing unemployment benefit duration, the founders’ outcomes in terms … unemployment, most research has focused on analyzing the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) policies on reemployment outcomes …

The well-known positive relationship between the unemployment benefit level and unemployment duration can be separated … effects on unemployment duration and subsequent job quality of a lump-sum severance grant provided to displaced workers, by … length of the completed unemployment duration, but no effect on subsequent job quality. My analysis also indicates that …

Can unemployment insurance (UI) affect the behavior of employed workers and the duration of their employment spells? I … elasticity affects welfare with a similar magnitude as the well-known elasticity of unemployment duration to the benefit level. … schedule, I find that a 1% higher potential benefit level increases job duration by around 0.35%. This result is driven by the …

Can the potential availability of unemployment insurance (UI) affect the behavior of employed workers and the duration … elasticity impacts welfare with a similar magnitude to the well-known elasticity of unemployment duration to benefit level. … duration by around 0.3%. Such result is driven by the fact that higher UI decreases the probability of job quits, which are not …

study the disincentive effect of unemployment insurance on (formal) reemployment in Brazil, and show that our bounds remain …

the actual replacement rate contribute to higher unemployment as suggested by theory. We also show that removing the wage …We examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and unemployment using Swedish regional data. To estimate the … effect of an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) on unemployment we exploit the ceiling on UI benefits. The benefit …

the actual replacement rate contribute to higher unemployment as suggested by theory. We also show that removing the wage …We examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and unemployment using Swedish regional data. To estimate the … effect of an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) on unemployment we exploit the ceiling on UI benefits. The benefit …