This paper investigates the consumption and savings behaviour of individuals that have experienced a job loss. Building on the scant literature on the issue, we test for the impact of unemployment benefits on consumption levels of the unemployed. We also expand on previous work in this area by...

A flow model of the Dutch labour market is used to calculate the efects of autonomous labour demand and supply shocks on employment and unemployment. The model is centered around a matching function which allows for heterogeneous unemployment by taking explicitly account of POWS through various...

This paper analyzes the effect of unemployment insurance sanctions on the transition rate from unemployment to employment. Sanctions are punitive benefits reductions that are supposed to make recipients comply with cer­tain minimum requirements concerning search behavior. We use a unique set of...