analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working … makes people generally better off than being unemployed, but employed welfare recipients do not reach the life satisfaction …. Our findings allow us to draw cautious conclusions on employment subsidies paid as welfare benefits. …

-experimental situation from which a lot can be learned about the impact of unemployment insurance rules on the dynamics of employment … for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum …, unemployment, and wages. We find that the REBP led to a tremendous increase in unemployment, which was due to both an increase in …

-experimental situation from which a lot can be learned about the impact of unemployment insurance rules on the dynamics of employment … for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum …, unemployment, and wages. We find that the REBP led to a tremendous increase in unemployment, which was due to both an increase in …

evidence is consistent with a "non-Coasean" framework building on wage frictions preventing efficient bargaining, and with …

evidence is consistent with a "non-Coasean" framework building on wage frictions preventing efficient bargaining, and with …

In June 1995, the Swedish parliament decided to cut the replacement rate in unemployment insurance from 80 percent to … among unemployed insured individuals. To identify the effect of the policy we exploit a quasi-experimental feature of the … benefit cut: only a fraction of the unemployed was affected by the reduction in replacement rates. We compare the evolution of …