This paper analyses the impact of Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) extensions on jobseeker households in selected …

We quantify micro and macro effects of changes in the potential benefit duration (PBD) in unemployment insurance. In … Poland, the PBD is 12 months for newly unemployed if the previous year's county unemployment rate is more than 150% of the … younger than 50), a PBD increase from 6 to 12 months leads to 13 percent higher unemployment. The aggregate effect on …

appears that the activation program is very effective. The median unemployment duration of the control group is 14 weeks …

We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job … search guidelines - affect unemployment. In our analysis we find that not only micro effects concerning the behavior of … benefit sanctions are more effective in reducing unemployment than an across the board reduction in the replacement rate. …

the most effective program to bring down unemployment. Public employment services have some impact while subsidized jobs …

This paper develops an overlapping-generations model characterized by endogenous growth, unemployment, and pollution … unemployment benefits, and considers a replacement-ratio-neutral reform in whichthe environmental tax is devoted to cutting the … employees' rate of contribution to unemployment insurance. Under this reform, (i) the growth rate is increased, the unemployment …

most effective program to bring down unemployment. Public employment services have some impact while subsidized jobs are …