sharp discontinuities in eligibility for severance pay and extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits in Austria …

The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This paper … evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 … weeks for elderly individuals in certain regions of Austria. In the evaluation, we explicitly account for the fact that the …

defined by the time spent on the unemployment system. In Austria, the exit rate from registered unemployment rises by over 200 …In this paper, we review the literature on the "spike" in unemployment exit rates around benefit exhaustion, and … present new evidence based on administrative data for a large sample of job losers in Austria. We find that the way …

discontinuities in eligibility for severance pay and extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits in Austria. Analyzing data for over …

auch die Chance, aus der Arbeitslosigkeit in die Beschäftigung zurückzukehren, werden jedoch vom Einstellungs- und … Kündigungsverhalten von Unternehmen beeinflusst. Vor diesem Hintergrund unterzieht der vorliegende "Unternehmensmonitor Arbeitslosigkeit …" die Rolle der Unternehmen bei der Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit einer systematischen Analyse: Wie häufig stellen sie …

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 …

In this paper, U.S. data on labor market histories of displaced workers are used to quantify the effect of Unemployment … Insurance Compensation (UIC) on both unemployment and employment durations. This results in the first available assessment of … the effect that UIC has on the fraction of time spent employed. The estimation procedure simultaneously allows for …

Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and …