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

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

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 …

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

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 … the unemployment insurance and the optimal search behavior of the unemployed gives rise to a self-reinforcing mechanism …

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 … program starts with standard unemployment insurance, then switches into monitored search and, finally, into social assistance …

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 …

The administration of benefits is a relatively neglected aspect of the analysis of disincentive effects of unemployment …

This paper investigates the disincentive effects of the potential duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. The … effect on the exit rate out of unemployment – both to employment and to other destinations – at various durations of … unemployment spells and for many categories of unemployed workers. …