We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment …

Can the potential availability of unemployment insurance (UI) affect the behavior of employed workers and the duration … elasticity impacts welfare with a similar magnitude to the well-known elasticity of unemployment duration to benefit level … duration by around 0.3%. Such result is driven by the fact that higher UI decreases the probability of job quits, which are not …

making benefit payments conditional on program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. We evaluate the effect of … Active Labor Market Programs and benefit entitlement on the duration of unemployment in Switzerland. In the evaluation we … participation. Taken together, this leads to the conclusion that programs prolong unemployment duration for men, but tend to shorten …

among men and women. The two reforms in conjunction are estimated to have increased the expected duration of unemployment … among men but to have decreased the duration of unemployment among women. The overall effect on the duration of unemployment …In 2001 and 2002, Sweden introduced several unemployment insurance reforms. A major innovation in the first reform was …

Economic theory suggests that an extension of the maximum length of entitlement for unemployment benefits increases the … duration of unemployment. Empirical results for the reform of the unemployment compensation system in Germany during the 1980s … unemployment is not directly observed. For this reason we bound the reform effect on unemployment duration over different …

making benefit payments conditional on program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. We evaluate the effect of … Active Labor Market Programs and benefit entitlement on the duration of unemployment in Switzerland. In the evaluation we … participation. Taken together, this leads to the conclusion that programs prolong unemployment duration for men, but tend to shorten …