The purpose of the article is to present the analysis of the influence of the unemployment benefit on the duration of … the registered unemployment spells. The authors made a hypothesis that the very fact of receiving the benefit prolongs the … job seeking time and determines the intensity of unemployment leaving. The power of this influence varies depending on a …

In November 2005, the Hungarian government frontloaded the unemployment benefit path, while kept constant the total … benefit amount that could be collected over the unemployment spell. We estimate the effect of this reform on non …

positive changes in the unemployment rate, which may be proxying for the inflow rate and could be called an insurance effect. …While much empirical research has been done on the labour market consequences of unemployment benefits, there is … remarkably little evidence on the forces determining benefits. The paper presents a simple model where workers desire insurance …

Unemployment benefits often reduce incentives to search for a job. Policymakers have responded to this behaviour by … setting minimum job search requirements, by monitoring to check that unemployment benefit recipients are engaged in the … search monitoring and benefit sanctions reduce unemployment duration and increase job entry in the short term. There is some …

The effect of generous welfare benefits on unemployment is highly contested. The dominant perspective contends that … matches. Despite many studies of welfare benefits and unemployment, the literature has neglected how this relationship might … vary across institutional contexts. This article investigates how unemployment benefits and minimum income benefits affect …

abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … unemployment duration is positive and significant. Neglecting selectivity leads to an underestimation of the effects in absolute …

for economies with either an earnings-related or flatrate unemployment compensation system are considered. A distinctive … feature of the analysis is the comparison of both unemployment compensation systems in a two-country setting. It is … demonstrated that the performance of a system with earnings-related or flat-rate unemployment benefits depends on whether the labor …

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

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 …

responses, unemployment insurance extensions contributed 0.5 percentage point to the increase in the aggregate unemployment rate …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 …