Unemployment Insurance (UI) scheme in which job search requirements are imposed on UI recipients with hyperbolic preferences. We …

evaluate the effects on post-unemployment employment stability, on exits from the labor market and on earnings. In our analysis …. Warnings do not affect subsequent employment stability but do reduce post-unemployment earnings. Actual benefit reductions …This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions, i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits …

on self-employment, we exploit a reform-driven exogenous cut in UI benefits to identify its causal effect on general … extensive margin of (self-)employment and on unemployment duration. We find heterogeneous effects on the extensive margin: while … reduced UI benefits extend unemployment duration for individuals transitioning into self-employment but shorten unemployment …

between high wages and low unemployment risk. A higher marginal tax rate shifts the trade-off in favor of low unemployment … risk, whereas a higher tax burden or unemployment benefit has the opposite effect. Changes in unemployment generate fiscal … externalities, which modify optimal tax formulas. I show that optimal employment subsidies (such as the EITC) phase in with income …

. The data are from a randomized experiment conducted in the Netherlands. They include registers of post-unemployment … monitoring effects on post-unemployment outcomes. We find that the option to climb the job ladder reduces substitution between … search channels during unemployment and compensates for adverse long-run effects of monitoring on wages. We use the …

Based on a sequence of reforms in the Norwegian unemployment insurance (UI) system, we show that activity-oriented UI … on unconditional UI entitlements, and high sanction probabilities - deliver substantially shorter unemployment spells … introduction of a soft constraint appears particularly effective; our results show that the expected unemployment duration falls by …

This paper investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment duration. Data from the Swiss … positive effect on the exit rate out of unemployment. Moreover, the stricter the sanction policy the shorter is the duration of … unemployment of the non-sanctioned. This can be taken as evidence of a strong ex-ante effect of a strict sanction policy …

between high wages and low unemployment risk. A higher marginal tax rate shifts the trade-off in favor of low unemployment … risk, whereas a higher tax burden or unemployment benefit has the opposite effect. Changes in unemployment generate fiscal … externalities, which modify optimal tax formulas. I show that optimal employment subsidies (such as the EITC) phase in with income …

self-employment, we exploit a reform-driven exogenous cut in UI benefits to identify its causal effect on general … extensive margin of (self-)employment and on unemployment duration. We find heterogeneous effects on the extensive margin: while … reduced UI benefits extend unemployment duration for individuals transitioning into self-employment but shorten unemployment …

Using a random sample of U.S. unemployment insurance (UI) applicants from 2002-09, we find that unemployment duration …, suggesting job search is a nonstationary process characterized by declining welfare even in the very early stages of unemployment … cause than for those who voluntarily quit. These differential effects suggest that unemployment may exacerbate the earnings …