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 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. …

This paper investigates how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects the quality of post-unemployment … jobs. It takes advantage of a natural experiment introduced by a change in Slovenia’s unemployment insurance law that … the post-unemployment jobs remained unaffected: the paper finds that the law change had no effect on either the type of …

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 …

We evaluate the effect of active labour market programs on the duration of unemployment in a reward or punish system …. In Switzerland, unemployment benefits are conditional upon program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. In … reduced during participation. Taken together, this leads to the conclusion that programs prolong unemployment duration for men …

unemployment. To this end, we take advantage of a unique Australian data set which contains information on both accepted and … range, individuals are about equally likely to obtain a job offer in employment as in unemployment. This implies that … encouraging unemployed (rather than employed) search through the provision of unemployment benefits does not improve the speed of …

cornerstone of labor market policy. We analyze its causal effects on the individual transition rate from unemployment to … unemployment spells for many individuals. The results indicate a large significantly positive effect on exit to work shortly after … the program, the effect on the mean unemployment duration is often close to zero. …