We quantify micro and macro effects of changes in the potential benefit duration (PBD) in unemployment insurance. In … Poland, the PBD is 12 months for the newly unemployed if the previous year's county unemployment rate is more than 150% of …, benefit recipients younger than 50, a PBD increase from 6 to 12 months leads to 13 percent higher unemployment. A …

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 …

The issue of whether unemployment benefits should increase or decrease over the unemployment spell is analyzed in an … search productivity of unemployed is constant over the unemployment spell, benefits should typically increase or be constant …

selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …

This paper studies how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects individuals’ job search behavior and re …-employment outcomes. We exploit an unexpected reform of the German unemployment insurance scheme in 2008, which increased the potential … benefit duration from 12 to 15 months for recipients of age 50 to 54. Based on detailed survey data and difference …

We identify the causal effect of lump-sum severance payments on non-employment duration in Norway by exploiting a … likely to exist also in other countries. -- unemployment ; optimal unemployment insurance ; liquidity constraints ; mental …

among men and women. The two reforms in conjunction are estimated to have increased the expected duration of unemployment … among men but to have decreased the duration of unemployment among women. The overall effect on the duration of unemployment …In 2001 and 2002, Sweden introduced several unemployment insurance reforms. A major innovation in the first reform was …

We consider an economy characterised by involuntary unemployment among low skilled workers, and investigate the … implications for employment and income of welfare schemes often advocated as less distortionary. We show that reducing unemployment … deterioration. To support employment, we suggest that systems grounded in contribution-based unemployment insurance schemes are to …

1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with … a large body of literature our results suggest that unemployment increases suicide mortality, while real economic growth … tends to decrease suicides. The results also indicate that unemployment benefits decrease suicides of males, while …