Many studies have found that the exit rate from unemployment increases in the vicinity of the exhaustion day of … unemployment insurance benefits. The extent to which this "spike" is driven by job search behavior is important for assessing the … distortionary effect of unemployment insurance. Card, Chetty and Weber (American Economic Review 2007; 97: 113-118) find a large …

This study examines the determinants of job-finding rates of unemployment benefit recipients under the Chilean program … the form of unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) - so as to mitigate the moral hazard problem of traditional … unemployment insurance programs. Our study is the first one to empirically investigate whether UISAs improve work incentives. We …

This study examines the determinants of job-finding rates of unemployment benefit recipients under the Chilean program … the form of unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) - so as to mitigate the moral hazard problem of traditional … unemployment insurance programs. Our study is the first one to empirically investigate whether UISAs improve work incentives. We …

This study examines the determinants of job-finding rates of unemployment benefit recipients under the Chilean program … the form of unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) – so as to mitigate the moral hazard problem of traditional … unemployment insurance programs. Our study is the first one to empirically investigate whether UISAs improve work incentives. We …

This paper investigates long-term returns from unemployment compensation, exploiting variation from the UK JSA reform … post-unemployment wages. I test these ideas on longitudinal data from Social Security records (LLMDB). Using a difference … in differences approach, I find that individuals who start an unemployment spell soon after JSA introduction, as opposed …

This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in … difficult-to-explain trends in the unemployment rate of older German workers …

affect their transition rates to employment, early retirement and sickness/disability benefits. The reform, becoming …

with a permanent contract, this study compares temporary work to the alternative of unemployment. Specifically, this paper …

market policy. We analyze its causal effects on the individual transition rate from unemployment to employment by exploiting …-parametric identification. The data cover the population and include multiple unemployment spells for many individuals. The results indicate a … diminishes after some weeks. When taking account of the time spent in the program, the effect on the mean unemployment duration …