people's employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the …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 …

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 investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment duration. Data from the Swiss …

evaluate the effects on post-unemployment employment stability, on exits from the labor market and on earnings. In our analysis …. Warnings do not affect subsequent employment stability but do reduce post-unemployment earnings. Actual benefit reductions … a benefit sanction on post-unemployment income is negative. Over a period of two years after leaving unemployment …

featuring indefinite payments of benefits and a system with a time limit on unemployment benefit receipt. The optimal sanction …This Paper analyses the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort … rates implied by our calibrated model are much higher than the sanction rates typically observed in European labour markets …

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

The single most likely way to leave the unemployment insurance (UI) register in Hungary is not by getting a job but by …

employment turnover and high insurance can co-exist with an American-type steady-state with low unemployment, high employment …In this paper, we incorporate a positive theory of unemployment insurance into a dynamic overlapping generations model … unemployment insurance levels in a politico-economic equilibrium. The interaction between the political decision about the level of …

in geographical mobility, unemployment and labour market institutions. Rational agents vote over unemployment insurance … high unemployment, low geographical mobility and high unemployment insurance, and one ‘American’ steady-state featuring low … unemployment, high mobility and low unemployment insurance. …

This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should be targeted. We contrast measures … efficiency" (AWE). Thereby we can identify policies that (a)improve employment and welfare, (b)do not raise earnings inequality …

unemployed (e.g., unemployment insurance, job search monitoring, social assistance, wage subsidies). This paper provides a … duration of the different policies, the dynamic pattern of payments along the unemployment spell, and the emergence of taxes …/subsidies upon re-employment. The optimal program endogenously generates an absorbing policy of last resort ('social assistance …