This study examines the determinants of job-finding rates of unemployment benefit recipientsunder the Chilean program … unemployment insurance programs. Our study is the first one to empiricallyinvestigate whether UISAs improve work incentives. We … find that for beneficiaries using theSF, the pattern of job finding rates over the duration of unemployment is consistent …

Germany, as most other European countries, has been plagued by a persistently high level of long-term unemployment … since the early 1980's. In contrast, long-term unemployment is much less of a problem in the United States. One potential … reason for the different structure of unemployment relates to institutional differences in unemployment compensation systems …

This paper investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment duration. Data from the Swiss … positive effect on the exit rate out of unemployment. Moreover, the stricter the sanction policy the shorter is the duration of … unemployment of the non-sanctioned. This can be taken as evidence of a strong ex-ante effect of a strict sanction policy. …