unemployed without any entitlement to unemployment benefits or any individual social protection like health care. These …, stricter eligibility rules to unemployment benefits introduced with the reforms. This re-familisation of social security stands …

The high U.S. unemployment rate after the Great Recession is usually considered to be a result of changes in factors … in the unemployment rate, these factors should have influenced workers' and firms' decisions. Therefore, it is important … factors affect the unemployment rate. To address this issue, we estimate a Mortensen-Pissarides style of labor-market matching …

reduction of unemployment benefits on the other reduce unemployment? Using the recent labour market reform in Germany as … background we find that the role of unemployment benefit reduction for the reduction of unemployment is very modest (7% of the … the observed post-reform unemployment decline. If disincentive effects of PEA reforms had been avoided, the effect could …

We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the effects of unemployment insurance policies on … unemployment. Our estimates imply that most of the persistent increase in unemployment during the Great Recession can be accounted … for by the unprecedented extensions of unemployment benefit eligibility. In contrast to the existing recent literature …

that a decrease of say unemployment probability or an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) generosity affects saving not …

Objectives: A multitude of studies has established a negative relationship between unemployment and health. With the … "Hartz-reforms", unemployment benefit II was introduced in 2005. Whether unemployment benefit II receipt has an impact …, additional to unemployment, on health, is investigated. Methods: For this study data of the panel study "Labour market and social …

up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is …

up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is …

change in the unemployment rate. Many estimated effects are larger for males than females. Notably, strong evidence of …