Recent efforts to expand unemployment insurance (UI) eligibility are expected to increase low-earning workers’ access …, which may decrease with UI benefits. In this paper, we estimate the impact of UI eligibility on employment, means …

Beveridge curve, and the labour flows data (unemployment to employment) evidence offer little support for the orthodox …In the midst of sharply rising long-term unemployment, a series of unemployment benefit (UB) eligibility extensions … ‘laws of economics' to warn that the extensions may be responsible for much of the current unemployment crisis. This …

In 1998 the Slovenian UI system was drastically reformed. The reform reduced the potential duration of unemployment … employment and to other destinations - at various durations of unemployment spells and for many categories of unemployed workers … benefits substantially and simultaneously improved employment services offered to, and monitoring of, the recipients. We find …

This paper analyses the effect of unemployment insurance generosity and active labour market policy on reemployment … to identify policy effects at the micro and macro level. Empirical evidence suggests that unemployment benefit receipt is … associated with longer reemployment duration at the individual level. Furthermore, countries with more generous unemployment …

This paper studies how changes in extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefit affect the duration of unemployment. We … range of 44-46 who entered unemployment in the same month in the same year, we find that longer maximum benefit durations do … not lead to a decrease in the jobless hazard; the duration of unemployment is not prolonged among jobseekers who have …

employment stability ; job match quality ; reemployment duration ; active labour market policy ; unemployment benefits …This paper analyses the effect of unemployment insurance generosity and active labour market policy on reemployment … to identify policy effects at the micro and macro level. Empirical evidence suggests that unemployment benefit receipt is …

This paper studies how changes in extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefit affect the duration of unemployment. We … range of 44-46 who entered unemployment in the same month in the same year, we find that longer maximum benefit durations do … not lead to a decrease in the jobless hazard; the duration of unemployment is not prolonged among jobseekers who have …

High levels of unemployment and rising social charges have lead to considerable pressure on labour markets to adjust …. Major steps in labour market reform have been implemented over the last three years. These need to be followed up in several … respects in order to raise the economy’s capacity to generate employment. The present tax and transfer system still implies …