This paper studies how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects individuals’ job search behavior and re-employment … outcomes. We exploit an unexpected reform of the German unemployment insurance scheme in 2008, which increased the potential … insignificant. In a complementary analysis, we use social security data to investigate how the reform affected re-employment …

improve employment incentives without significant changes in the current redistribution scheme. We provide a detailed account …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 …

noncompliance in a dynamic context. In an empirical application, we evaluate the French labor market policy reform PARE which … abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … additional active labor market policy measures. The estimated effect of the reform on the survival function of the duration of …

noncompliance in a dynamic context. In an empirical application, we evaluate the French labor market policy reform PARE which … abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … additional active labor market policy measures. The estimated effect of the reform on the survival function of the duration of …

unemployment benefits. We use the 1999 unemployment insurance reform of Portugal, a quasi-natural experiment. The reform increased … the maximum duration of benefits for three groups of agents and maintained all features of the unemployment insurance for … successfully predicts the effects on the unemployment rate, the labor force participation, and the levels of unemployment and …

darauf basierenden individuellen Prämien bei alternativen Leistungen der Arbeitslosenversicherung entworfen. Für die Seite … privater Arbeitslosenversicherung eingegangen. …The authors suggest a dual-system model of private unemployment insurance that includes incentives on the side of …

Social comparisons are important in the employment sphere. A "culture of unemployment" may evolve and prevail because … group. We advance the idea that by making the receipt of unemployment benefits conditional on engagement in an incentive …-enhancing activity (for example, work under state-sponsored employment schemes or participation in work-site-based training programs), a …

extended unemployment benefits. Our empirical exercise explores a quasi-experimental setting generated by an increase in the … benefits entitlement period. The results point towards a hump-shape response of unemployment duration over the one-year pre-unemployment … interquartile range. This behavior of job searchers is consistent with labor supply models with unemployment insurance and savings …

extended unemployment benefits. Our empirical exercise explores a quasi-experimental setting generated by an increase in the … benefits entitlement period. The results point towards a hump-shape response of unemployment duration over the one-year pre-unemployment … interquartile range. This behavior of job searchers is consistent with labor supply models with unemployment insurance and savings …