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

We empirically investigate how two-tier unemployment compensation schemes affect the profile of re-employment hazards …. We exploit the aggravation of an existing two-tier scheme in Germany in 2005 and estimate its impact on re-employment … declines. For the long-term unemployed, we find none and for certain groups of job seekers even negative impacts on the re-employment …

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 …

.The growth in homelessness that we projected in 2020 was based on the ratio of growth in unemployment to growth in homelessness ….Eviction moratoriums and cash payments kept households and workers intact during the COVID pandemic. Re-employment is a third, crucial …

-displacement wage. Using rich and accurate data on workers’ employment patterns before and after displacement, we compare the earnings … and employment outcomes of displaced workers who entered transfer companies with those that did not. Workers can choose … and IV estimates indicate that the use of a transfer company has a positive and significant effect on employment rates …

of unemployment insurance and severance payments on the duration of unemployment and on the separation probability in … Argentina. Administrative data permits analysis of the duration of unemployment of covered spells with detailed information … informal jobs, which are not observed in administrative data. It is found that unemployment duration increases significantly …

Many studies have been conducted to analyze the effect of stricter Employment Protection Legislation (EPL). However … entailing future stronger labor rigidities, from January 2001 to May 2012. Using the Permanent Employment Survey (EPE), we find … a negative relation between expectations towards a stricter labor market and both employment and average income. News …