Can unemployment insurance (UI) affect the behavior of employed workers and the duration of their employment spells? I … schedule, I find that a 1% higher potential benefit level increases job duration by around 0.35%. This result is driven by the … simple model showing that the positive effect on employment duration implies that the optimal benefit is higher than …

for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum …

Arbeitslosenhilfe hat sowohl für eine Beseitigung der faktischen Frühverrentungsanreize durch die Arbeitslosenversicherung als auch für …

. Also the re-employment probability and post-unemployment wage are negatively affected. The results for the duration of the …

This paper investigates the disincentive effects of the potential duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. The … the potential benefit duration and had characteristics of a natural experiment. We find that the change had a positive …

) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) - affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made … unemployment insurance more generous by changing, simultaneously, the maximum duration of regular unemployment benefits and the … the maximum duration of benefits. We use these results to split up the total costs to unemployment insurance funds into …