This paper explores how extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits targeted to older workers affect early retirement …

program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non …-eligible unemployed in treated regions, and a difference-in-difference identification strategy to control for preexisting differences … unemployment duration and probability of long term unemployment decrease. These effects are the largest when the program intensity …

We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment …-compliance tax generates strong employment effects for low-wage firms and weak effects for high-wage firms. We also find that growing …

among affected women aged 55-58.25. The associated increase in employment was merely 6.8 percentage points among men and 10 ….1 percentage points among women. The reforms had large spillover effects to the unemployment insurance program but negligible … effects on disability insurance claims. Specifically, unemployment increased by roughly 10 percentage points both among men …

percentage points among affected women. The decline in retirement was accompanied by a sizeable increase in employment of 7 … unemployment insurance program. Specifically, the unemployment rate increased by 10 percentage points among men and 11 percentage …

It is frequently argued that unemployment plays a crucial role for the occurrence of right- wing extremist crimes. We … unemployment is high. The big difference in right-wing crime between East and West German states can mostly be attributed to … differences in unemployment. This finding reinforces the importance of unemployment as an explanatory factor for right-wing crime …

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empir- ical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment dura- tion on the order of 20 %. Moreover, we find …