A duration model based on the time on Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits instead of amodel based on the time till re …

appears that the activation program is very effective. The median unemployment duration of the control group is 14 weeks …

A large fraction of the eligible unemployed workers does not claim for unemployment insurance (UI) and, among claimants … the sample faces high claiming frictions, many have good employment prospects and exit unemployment quickly. The burden of … little effect on aggregate unemployment duration. Additionally we show that the link between claiming and job search efforts …

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness absence during …

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 …

Unemployment insurance recipients in the Netherlands were for a long time exempted from the requirement to actively …

did not affect total post-unemployment earnings indicating that the positive effects on job finding and job turnover …

Should unemployment insurance (UI) systems provide coverage for underemployed job seekers? Based on a statistical … analysis of Norwegian unemployment spells, we conclude that the answer to this question is yes. Allowing insured job seekers to … employers as a screening device when hiring from the unemployment pool …

We examine empirically the impacts of labor market policies - in terms of unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor … expected unemployment duration, while improving the quality of the resultant job. Participation in ALMP raises the probability …

We study how unemployment benefit eligibility affects the layoff exit rate by exploiting quasi-experimental variation … 12% in the layoff probability when unemployment benefit eligibility is attained, which persists for about 16 weeks. These …