Many countries have a two-tiered unemployment compensation system which provides earnings-related unemployment … insurance for a limited period of time and less generous unemployment assistance thereafter. This study evaluates the effects of … a reform in Finland that increased the level of unemployment assistance by 22%. The reform led to a drop of 9% in the …

This paper examines whether or not a prolonged unemployment period can raise the quality of job matching after … unemployment. We focus on job tenure as an indicator of a good quality job match after unemployment. We match two sets of Japanese … seekers receiving unemployment insurance, and the other includes information about job seekers applying for jobs. We first …

on their interactions with the profile of unemployment benefits and with active labor market programs. …

The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty …: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The unemployment vouchers are targeted exclusively at the unemployed (especially the … workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …

optima, non-linear income taxation is a key complement to unemployment insurance. According to the level of the workers …

This paper investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment duration. Data from the Swiss … positive effect on the exit rate out of unemployment. Moreover, the stricter the sanction policy the shorter is the duration of … unemployment of the non-sanctioned. This can be taken as evidence of a strong ex-ante effect of a strict sanction policy. …

This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions, i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits … as punishment for noncompliance with eligibility requirements. In addition to the effects on unemployment durations, we … evaluate the effects on post-unemployment employment stability, on exits from the labor market and on earnings. In our analysis …

her first six months in unemployment – enters the employment office for the first time, this model predicts whether he or …

This paper analyzes the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort … featuring indefinite payments of benefits and a system with a time limit on unemployment benefit receipt. The optimal sanction …

With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate …