We study how job seekers' understanding of complex unemployment benefit rules affects their labor market performance … unemployment benefit rules and their personal benefit entitlements. Second, we show that a low-cost information strategy using a …

In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment …

consider individuals up to three months before the envisaged termination of their employment and we study effects of pre-unemployment …-to-be unemployed. This is driven by workers with a relatively high unemployment risk following registration. Thus, the policies …

efficient to intervene earlier in order to prevent long-term unemployment rather than to cure it, the climate of austerity in … of the unemployment spell. It comprises of a collective information session followed by a short one-on-one interview. In … in the first four months after the start of the unemployment spell, and the early intervention seems especially …

Findings of prolonged non-employment spells due to more generous unemployment benefits are commonly seen as an …. Instrumental variables estimates further provide causal evidence on the direct relationship between search effort and unemployment …