Unemployment insurance (UI) sanctions in the form of benefit reductions are intended to set disincentives for UI …. The results indicate positive effects on the employment probability in regular employment for both women and men …

recent unemployment benefit reform (Hartz IV). The reform reduced unemployment by only 0.3%. Contrary to general beliefs, we …The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits … aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation using a German micro-data set (SOEP) allows us to discuss the effects of a …

measures such as monitoring and job search assistance for each period of unemployment in a dynamic environment with negative … duration dependence in the exit rates to employment and potential depreciation in reemployment wages. We show that the main … to provide positive search effort. It is used to restore or maintain some minimum exit rate to employment which increases …

providing an employment subsidy to any firm hiring workers from the LM. Eligibility duration varies with the worker's age at … dismissal. We exploit the variability of these provisions to evaluate the impact of extending the duration of eligibility on re-employment …

Unemployment Insurance (UI) scheme in which job search requirements are imposed on UI recipients with hyperbolic preferences. We …

administrations work together with the local public employment services. We find that despite positive self-selection Approved Local … compared to Joint Local Agencies suggests that they underestimated the benefits of having the local public employment service …

public social expenditures and a high unemployment rate are associated with a small positive (or no) immediate impact on …

benefit of employment. Finally, we examine subjective assessments of income and leisure as potential predictors for job take …

This paper provides a novel justification for a declining time profile of unemployment benefits that does not rely on …

This article analyzes the behavioral effects of unemployment benefits (UB) and it characterizes their optimal level … decrease the duration in unemployment. Extensive numerical simulations indicate that the relationship between the level of the …