We investigate whether and how the type of unemployment benefit institution affects productivity. We designed a field … transfer, with their productivity under a workfare system, where the transfer is received conditional on the unemployed …-esteem, presumably due to the shame or stigma associated with receiving an unconditional unemployment benefit. We document the empirical …

Families (TANF) become jobless, apply for and receive unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, and participate in publicly funded …

introducing non-search activity requirements for unemployment benefit recipients. The Mutual Obligations Initiative (MOI) required … people aged 18-34 receiving unemployment benefits to undertake a range of non-search activities (e.g., volunteering, training … a lower incidence of unemployment benefit receipt in comparison to those whose fathers were not. More detailed …

Similar to numerous other European countries, Germany's unemployment policy went through a paradigm shift in 2005 … draw causal inference of sanction enforcements on unemployment exit hazards. Based on a novel survey sample covering the …

Similar to many other European countries, Germany's unemployment policy made a paradigm shift towards activation policy … sanction enforcement on unemployment exit hazards. Based on a survey sample, covering the first three years after … leaving the labor market. -- unemployment benefit sanctions ; unemployment duration ; employment ; non-employment ; mixed …

Similar to numerous other European countries, Germany's unemployment policy went through a paradigm shift towards … inference of sanction enforcements on unemployment exit hazards. Based on a novel survey sample, covering the first three years … entrance, but also on leaving the labor market. -- unemployment benefit sanctions ; unemployment duration ; employment ; non …