Swiss policy makers created a unique link between unemployment benefits and Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs) by … making benefit payments conditional on program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. We evaluate the effect of … Active Labor Market Programs and benefit entitlement on the duration of unemployment in Switzerland. In the evaluation we …

Based on a sequence of reforms in the Norwegian unemployment insurance (UI) system, we show that activity-oriented UI … on unconditional UI entitlements, and high sanction probabilities - deliver substantially shorter unemployment spells … introduction of a soft constraint appears particularly effective; our results show that the expected unemployment duration falls by …

Social surveys are often used to estimate unemployment duration distributions. Survey nonresponse may then cause a bias … of the same workers. The latter provide information on unemployment durations and personal characteristics of all survey … based on only survey data: (1) selectivity due to related unobserved determinants of unemployment durations and non …

The U.S. labor market has been experiencing unprecedented high average unemployment duration. The shift in the … unemployment duration distribution can be traced back to the early nineties. In this study, censored quantile regression methods … are employed to analyze the changes in the US unemployment duration distribution. We explore the decomposition method …

approach provides accurate effect estimates, especially if time-varying variation in the unemployment rate of the local labor …

noncompliance in a dynamic context. In an empirical application, we evaluate the French labor market policy reform PARE which … abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … additional active labor market policy measures. The estimated effect of the reform on the survival function of the duration of …

This paper studies how changes in the two key parameters of unemployment insurance – the benefit replacement rate (RR …) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) – affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made … unemployment insurance more generous by changing, simultaneously, the maximum duration of regular unemployment benefits and the …

out of unemployment because they become eligible to receive pension benefits. We use a unique dataset covering the … unemployment histories (longitudinal data) of individuals born between 1940 and 1965 who were registered with any of the public … time period 1996-2015. We examine the transition from unemployment to retirement as a multi-year process. We analyse …

In 1998 the Slovenian UI system was drastically reformed. The reform reduced the potential duration of unemployment … that the reduction in potential benefit duration had a positive effect on the exit rate out of unemployment – both to … employment and to other destinations – at various durations of unemployment spells and for many categories of unemployed workers …

In response to the Great Recession and sustained labor market downturn, the availability of unemployment insurance (UI … extensions across states to estimate the overall impact of these extensions on unemployment duration, comparing the experience … extensions on unemployment transitions and duration. We rely on individual variation in benefit availability based on the …