well as the effect of changes in the unemployment rate on the financial status of the Social Security program. After … concerning the actuarial balance of the Social Security program assuming different values for the unemployment rate and the level … of net immigration. The study found that a half a percentage point change in the unemployment rate leads to a 0 …

for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum …-experimental situation from which a lot can be learned about the impact of unemployment insurance rules on the dynamics of employment …, unemployment, and wages. We find that the REBP led to a tremendous increase in unemployment, which was due to both an increase in …

This study examines the determinants of job-finding rates of unemployment benefit recipients under the Chilean program … the form of unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) - so as to mitigate the moral hazard problem of traditional … unemployment insurance programs. Our study is the first one to empirically investigate whether UISAs improve work incentives. We …

This paper presents new evidence on how UI (Unemployment Insurance) benefit pay frequencies affect the job search … find that switching from biweekly to weekly pay significantly increases UI claimants' unemployment durations. This observed …

This paper investigates the disincentive effects of the potential duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. The … effect on the exit rate out of unemployment - both to employment and to other destinations - at various durations of … unemployment spells and for many categories of unemployed workers …

We quantify micro and macro effects of changes in the potential benefit duration (PBD) in unemployment insurance. In … Poland, the PBD is 12 months for newly unemployed if the previous year's county unemployment rate is more than 150% of the … younger than 50), a PBD increase from 6 to 12 months leads to 13 percent higher unemployment. The aggregate effect on …

We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job … search guidelines - affect unemployment. In our analysis we find that not only micro effects concerning the behavior of … benefit sanctions are more effective in reducing unemployment than an across the board reduction in the replacement rate. …

This paper examines the incentive effects caused by the interactions between unemployment insurance (UI) and sickness …

This paper examines the incentive effects caused by the interactions between unemployment insurance (UI) and sickness …