model for the high unemployment countries of Europe. Our results suggest that this policy reform would significantly change … people's employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the …We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment …

. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and …. The German labor market has been plagued by high and persistent unemployment in the last two decades in combination with a …

pension payments. Therefore, such accounts make unemployment less attractive, intensify job search, and raise employment. In …Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts (UISAs) entitle workers to unemployment benefits at the expense of future … the present paper the wage and employment consequences of UISAs are investigated in a model of collective wage …

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 …

Hiring subsidies are widely used to create (stable) employment for the long-term unemployed. This paper exploits the … at least a bachelor's degree. However, the hiring subsidy mainly created temporary short-lived employment: eligible … jobseekers were not more likely to find employment that lasted at least twelve consecutive months than ineligible jobseekers …

This paper evaluates the impact on the transition to work of a policy reform in Belgium that restricted the access to a … 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 …

labor force participants between employment in a full time job and being on unemployment insurance benefits and considering …-time job compared to being on unemployment benefits. The effect of these financial disincentives is analyzed in simple reduced … form models of on-the-job search, unemployed search behavior, unemployment risk, and transitions out of the labor force. We …

This paper analyses the effect of unemployment insurance generosity and active labour market policy on reemployment … to identify policy effects at the micro and macro level. Empirical evidence suggests that unemployment benefit receipt is … associated with longer reemployment duration at the individual level. Furthermore, countries with more generous unemployment …

This paper studies how changes in extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefit affect the duration of unemployment. We … range of 44-46 who entered unemployment in the same month in the same year, we find that longer maximum benefit durations do … not lead to a decrease in the jobless hazard; the duration of unemployment is not prolonged among jobseekers who have …