Recent efforts to expand unemployment insurance (UI) eligibility are expected to increase low-earning workers' access … temporarily lowers receipt of cash assistance (TANF) by 63 percent, the net impact on total income is still positive and large: In …

Families (TANF) become jobless, apply for and receive unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, and participate in publicly funded …-sufficiency through return to work and independence from TANF. The analysis is based on person-level administrative program records from … four of the nine largest states between 1997 and 2003. Evidence suggests that three-quarters of new TANF leavers experience …

Families (TANF) become jobless, apply for and receive unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, and participate in publicly funded …-sufficiency through return to work and independence from TANF. The analysis is based on person-level administrative program records from … four of the nine largest states between 1997 and 2003. Evidence suggests that three-quarters of new TANF leavers experience …

This comprehensive study on UB-II-sanctions in Germany, applying PSM, presents the ex-post effects of welfare sanctions … on several employment states for diverse (sub-)groups of employable welfare recipients. Besides unemployed, we also … to enter employment and to exit welfare, at least in the short run. The positive effects tend to work stronger in the …

This study provides the first comprehensive analysis of sanction effects on post-welfare employment quality in Europe … effects also for employed welfare recipients ("Aufstocker") and for indirectly affected employable household members. Our … analyses reveal highly significant and strongly negative effects of benefit sanctions on the quality of post-welfare employment …

We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment … balances in these accounts are available to them during periods of unemployment. The government is able to undertake balanced … model for the high unemployment countries of Europe. Our results suggest that this policy reform would significantly change …

Beschäftigte laufend auf Ihre Beschäftigungskonten ein, von denen sie während der Arbeitslosigkeit Beträge abheben können. Werden …We present a proposal for reforming unemployment assistance in Germany through the introduction of unemployment … accounts (UAs). Instead of paying taxes that finance the unemployment assistance, employed people make ongoing contributions to …

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 … originates from the increased effectiveness of labor supply. We advocate that for a given loss in welfare for the unemployed …