The paper analyses the effects of a 2011 increase in the unemployment benefit replacement rate on the job-finding rate … of Slovenian benefit recipients. Using registry data on the universe of Slovenian unemployment benefit recipients, we … decreased the hazard rate of the transition from unemployment to employment, with an implied elasticity of the hazard rate with …

The issue of whether unemployment benefits should increase or decrease over the unemployment spell is analyzed in a … productivity of unemployed is constant over the unemployment spell, benefits should typically increase or be constant. The only …

benefit duration (PBD) within the German UI system, we find that longer PBD leads to longer actual unemployment duration for … for those individuals becoming re-employed. With increasing unemployment benefit duration, the founders’ outcomes in terms … unemployment, most research has focused on analyzing the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) policies on reemployment outcomes …

, ignoring self-employment. In this paper, we analyze how the potential duration of unemployment benefits, a fundamental design … of unemployment benefits, we find that longer potential benefit duration implies longer actual unemployment and, as a …Business creation is economically important, and unemployment precedes the creation of a substantial share of new firms …

providing an employment subsidy to any firm hiring workers from the LM. Eligibility duration varies with the worker's age at … dismissal. We exploit the variability of these provisions to evaluate the impact of extending the duration of eligibility on re …

providing an employment subsidy to any firm hiring workers from the LM. Eligibility duration varies with the worker's age at … provisions to evaluate the impact of extending the duration of eligibility on re-employment probabilities and wages over the 36 …

Findings of prolonged non-employment spells due to more generous unemployment benefits are commonly seen as an … duration in Germany paired with individual-level data on job search behavior to directly investigate this assumed relationship … the benefit scheme: the extension of the benefit duration caused job search effort to significantly decrease, lowering the …

that a decrease of say unemployment probability or an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) generosity affects saving not …

The purpose of the article is to present the analysis of the influence of the unemployment benefit on the duration of … the registered unemployment spells. The authors made a hypothesis that the very fact of receiving the benefit prolongs the … job seeking time and determines the intensity of unemployment leaving. The power of this influence varies depending on a …

-finding rates and the more standard view of negative effects. When unemployment compensation, if any, is low enough, we argue that … conclusion as well. Looking specifically at unemployment compensation, its optimal level is generally higher than when a lower …