labour market institutions (e.g. unemployment benefits, job security legislation and payroll taxes) have complementary … effects on unemployment; and thus (b) that policies aimed at reforming these institutions are also complementary. These policy …) is unlikely to achieve significant reductions in unemployment. Rather, labour market reform becomes particularly …

In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment …

appears that the activation program is very effective. The median unemployment duration of the control group is 14 weeks …

also find that the quality of the post-unemployment jobs was not affected by the activation program. Both findings confirm …

The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This Paper … evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 …

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 studies how changes in the two key parameters of unemployment insurance – the benefit replacement rate (RR …) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) – affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made … unemployment insurance more generous by changing, simultaneously, the maximum duration of regular unemployment benefits and the …

dynamics of employment and unemployment in order to identify key issues for the sources of the malfunctioning of these labour …

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 the duration of … unemployment. This can be taken as evidence of a strong ex-ante effect of a strict sanction policy. …