We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment … balances in these accounts are available to them during periods of unemployment. The government is able to undertake balanced … model for the high unemployment countries of Europe. Our results suggest that this policy reform would significantly change …

most effective program to bring down unemployment. Public employment services have some impact while subsidized jobs are …

: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital … reducing unemployment, encouraging labour force participation, promoting skills, reducing governments’ budgetary pressures …

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. …

This Paper analyses the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort … featuring indefinite payments of benefits and a system with a time limit on unemployment benefit receipt. The optimal sanction …

With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate …

. 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 …

protection level and an unemployment benefit. We first show that, in the absence of parties (i.e., in a citizen-candidate model …), low-skilled workers are decisive and support a maximum employment protection level together with some unemployment benefit … exhibit a negative correlation between employment protection and unemployment benefit. …

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 behaviour of … benefit sanctions are more effective in reducing unemployment than an across the board reduction in the replacement rate. …