unemployment benefit eligibility, improving employment services, participation in active labour market policies, monitoring and … the current measures in Slovenia in the area of activation of unemployment benefit recipients and it compares its formal … sanctions. The review lists several recommendations Slovenia should apply to activate unemployment benefit recipients, including …

. This paper analyzes how using a dataset from the operational system of the German Federal Employment Agency for processing … leaving the welfare system between sanction events and sanction periods, e.g., by taking up employment. Third, the paper shows …

In 2001 and 2002, Sweden introduced several unemployment insurance reforms. A major innovation in the first reform was … compensation during the first 20 weeks of unemployment. The 2002 reform retained the two-tiered benefit structure but involved also … unemployment to employment. We take advantage of the fact that the reforms had quasi-experimental features where the "treatments …

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 paper exploits a substantial reform of the Dutch UI law to study the effect of the entitlement period on job … often temporary jobs with lower wages and fewer working hours. Therefore, they also change jobs more frequently. The reform … did not affect total post-unemployment earnings indicating that the positive effects on job finding and job turnover …

recent unemployment benefit reform (Hartz IV). The reform reduced unemployment by only 0.3%. Contrary to general beliefs, we …The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits … aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation using a German micro-data set (SOEP) allows us to discuss the effects of a …

recent unemployment benefit reform (Hartz IV). The reform reduced unemployment by only 0.3%. Contrary to general beliefs, we …The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits … aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation using a German micro-data set (SOEP) allows us to discuss the effects of a …

Unemployment and under-employment represented $25.8 billion in annual wages not earned in Los Angeles County, $28 … where one or more breadwinners are under-employed. Unemployment and under-employment rates in LA peaked at the end of 2010 …

Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and …

This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in … difficult-to-explain trends in the unemployment rate of older German workers …