makes the consequences of unemployment less severe. We evaluate a two-part policy reform in Belgium to study whether … conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits for education-leavers on age or schooling attainment can affect … educational achievements. The results show that the prospect of financial loss in case of unemployment can significantly raise …

specific unemployment insurance scheme for young labor market entrants. This scheme entitles youths with no or little labor … market experience to unemployment benefits after a waiting period of one year. As of 2015, the Belgian government …

and policy responses in real-time and provide the first application to Germany in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic …

unemployment duration and probability of long term unemployment decrease. These effects are the largest when the program intensity … program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non …

inequality in hours worked as well as the correlation between the two. We use data for the US, the UK, France, and Germany over …

) 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 … the maximum duration of benefits. We use these results to split up the total costs to unemployment insurance funds into …

unemployment re-insurance scheme for the euro area. Running counterfactual simulations based on household micro data for the period … asymmetries in labor market shocks would have raised the income insurance of a typical unemployment insurance scheme in the euro …

drastically increased. Average pre-tax labor income decreased by 5%, largely due to increased unemployment among part-time workers … unemployment rise, yet they contributed to income inequality under certain conditions. These results provide insight into the …