This paper examines the impact of the fourth partial revision of the law of unemployment insurance (AVIG) on … unemployment dynamics in Switzerland at a cantonal level. The authors apply the Synthetic Control Method (SCM), a matching method … unemployment rate at a cantonal level: the reform had a discernible impact on lowering the unemployment rate in the Italian- and …

different points of the distribution of unemployment duration when EEB is and is not available, controlling for changes in labor …This paper presents estimates of the effect of emergency and extended unemployment benefits (EEB) on the unemployment … ineligible for EEB back to the late 1970s. To identify these estimates, we examine how exit rates from unemployment change across …

unemployment benefits. We use the 1999 unemployment insurance reform of Portugal, a quasi-natural experiment. The reform increased … the maximum duration of benefits for three groups of agents and maintained all features of the unemployment insurance for …We test the predictions of an equilibrium search model about the effects of an increase in the maximum duration of …

considerably increased inflows from employment into unemployment, and 33 percent of the reduced outflows from unemployment to … unemployment in the short run by 80,000 persons …

method to estimate the causal effect of this scheme on unemployment duration and on beneficiaries' wages. Intended for … beneficiaries. On one hand, it had a "disincentive" effect on their job search efforts, increasing their unemployment duration … employees who have previously received unemployment benefits, this subsidy seems to have produced contrasting effects on the …

end in sight. In this short paper we assess empirically what determines the duration of trade negotiations, focusing on … ; GATT ; WTO ; duration ; income ; data ; empirical ; Cox ; survival …

impact on the time it takes to accede to GATT/WTO. In particular, the accession duration is likely shorter for an applicant …

; unemployment duration ; experiment ; activation programs … also find that the quality of the post-unemployment jobs was not affected by the activation program. Both findings confirm … that activation programs mainly work because they are compulsory and unemployed don't like them. -- Unemployment insurance …