Many countries have a two-tiered unemployment compensation system which provides earnings-related unemployment … insurance for a limited period of time and less generous unemployment assistance thereafter. This study evaluates the effects of … a reform in Finland that increased the level of unemployment assistance by 22%. The reform led to a drop of 9% in the …

The existing literature assumes that unemployment insurance (UI) affects the labor market through the job finding rate …

the maximum duration of benefits for three groups of agents and maintained all features of the unemployment insurance for …We test the predictions of an equilibrium search model about the effects of an increase in the maximum duration of … unemployment benefits. We use the 1999 unemployment insurance reform of Portugal, a quasi-natural experiment. The reform increased …

entitlement of the maximum unemployment benefit duration to identify the medium-run effects of reduced benefit durations on post-unemployment … outcomes. Shortening benefit duration carries a double- dividend: It generates fiscal benefits without deteriorating the …