In response to the 2007-09 “Great Recession,” the maximum duration of U.S. unemployment benefits was increased from the … microdata from the Current Population Survey. I find that a 10-week extension of UI benefits raises unemployment duration by …

. The data are from a randomized experiment conducted in the Netherlands. They include registers of post-unemployment … monitoring effects on post-unemployment outcomes. We find that the option to climb the job ladder reduces substitution between … search channels during unemployment and compensates for adverse long-run effects of monitoring on wages. We use the …

Based on a sequence of reforms in the Norwegian unemployment insurance (UI) system, we show that activity-oriented UI … on unconditional UI entitlements, and high sanction probabilities - deliver substantially shorter unemployment spells … introduction of a soft constraint appears particularly effective; our results show that the expected unemployment duration falls by …

reasons, are unable to work as much as they would like to. Offering unemployment benefits to part-time unemployed workers is …

criteria for unemployment and disability benefits applied to older individuals. We present evidence that these two factors … extension of unemployment benefits until the earliest age for drawing old age pension. Furthermore, our findings imply that a …

out of unemployment along with the sanction rate and hazard rate into active labour market programmes. We optimally select …

In this paper we provide an account of most of the passive labor market policies (unemployment compensation, social … unemployed people receiving unemployment benefits with those receiving social assistance and those not receiving any benefits and … effects of the unemployment and social assistance benefits by comparing these benefits to market wages and by analyzing the …

While much empirical research has been done on the labor market consequences of unemployment benefits, there is … against the possibility of unemployment and unemployment benefits increase the unemployment rate. We then conduct, what we … believe, is one of the first empirical analyses of the determinants of the parameters of the unemployment benefit system …

While much empirical research has been done on the labor market consequences of unemployment benefits, there is … against the possibility of unemployment and unemployment benefits increase the unemployment rate. We then conduct, what we … believe, is one of the first empirical analyses of the determinants of the parameters of the unemployment benefit system …

The purpose of this paper is to argue the need for unemployment insurance reform. At a minimum the system needs to be …