Do unemployment insurance and social assistance payments have disincentive effects on job seeking behavior and the … duration of unemployment in the Slovak Republic? The evidence suggests they do …

The author studies the potential disincentive effects of unemployment insurance, and social assistance payments on the … duration of unemployment in the Slovak Republic. For this purpose, she uses new, very detailed data on receipt of benefits from … the Unemployment Registry (1990-2000) and the Labor Force Survey (1996, 1999, and 2000). She employs a flexible …

-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 …

The system of unemployment benefits and subsistence benefits in Slovakia has potentially largedisincentive effects with … respect to the outflow from unemployment to a job. Especially low educatedunemployed and unemployed with young children are ….We find no evidence of disincentive effects of the Slovak unemployment system. …