We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job … search guidelines - affect unemployment. In our analysis we find that not only micro effects concerning the behavior of … benefit sanctions are more effective in reducing unemployment than an across the board reduction in the replacement rate …

We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the effects of unemployment insurance policies on … unemployment. Our estimates imply that most of the persistent increase in unemployment during the Great Recession can be accounted … for by the unprecedented extensions of unemployment benefit eligibility. In contrast to the existing recent literature …

and Income Security (EIS) to strengthen the inclusive function and stabilisation impact of national unemployment insurance …

Countercyclical unemployment benefit extensions in the United States act as a propagation mechanism, contributing to … both the high persistence of unemployment and its weak correlation with productivity. We show this by modifying an … otherwise standard frictional model of the labor market to incorporate a stochastic and state-dependent process for unemployment …

for economies with either an earnings-related or flatrate unemployment compensation system are considered. A distinctive … feature of the analysis is the comparison of both unemployment compensation systems in a two-country setting. It is … demonstrated that the performance of a system with earnings-related or flat-rate unemployment benefits depends on whether the labor …

on their interactions with the profile of unemployment benefits and with active labor market programs. -- unemployment … ; search-matching equilibrium ; wage bargaining ; reductions of social security contributions ; unemployment insurance ; labor …

on their interactions with the profile of unemployment benefits and with active labor market programs …

reduction of unemployment benefits on the other reduce unemployment? Using the recent labour market reform in Germany as … background we find that the role of unemployment benefit reduction for the reduction of unemployment is very modest (7% of the … the observed post-reform unemployment decline. If disincentive effects of PEA reforms had been avoided, the effect could …

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 …