This paper investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment duration. Data from the Swiss … positive effect on the exit rate out of unemployment. Moreover, the stricter the sanction policy the shorter is the duration of … unemployment of the non-sanctioned. This can be taken as evidence of a strong ex-ante effect of a strict sanction policy …

between high wages and low unemployment risk. A higher marginal tax rate shifts the trade-off in favor of low unemployment … risk, whereas a higher tax burden or unemployment benefit has the opposite effect. Changes in unemployment generate fiscal … and that the provision of unemployment insurance justifies a positive marginal tax rate even without income heterogeneity …

Using a random sample of U.S. unemployment insurance (UI) applicants from 2002-09, we find that unemployment duration …, suggesting job search is a nonstationary process characterized by declining welfare even in the very early stages of unemployment … cause than for those who voluntarily quit. These differential effects suggest that unemployment may exacerbate the earnings …

out of unemployment along with the sanction rate and hazard rate into active labour market programmes. We optimally select …

This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions, i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits … as punishment for noncompliance with eligibility requirements. In addition to the effects on unemployment durations, we … evaluate the effects on post-unemployment employment stability, on exits from the labor market and on earnings. In our analysis …

disparity in the United States and continuing high unemployment in Europe. She suggests that since the transformations will …

rating in the U.S. Unemployment Insurance system, the reserve ratio and the benefit ratio methods. Differences in layoff …

unemployment insurance, job retention and employment protection, as they play an additional and potentially prominent role in …