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

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. …

The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This paper … evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 …

econometric testing. The evolution of the economic analysis of unemployment insurance provides a good illustration. New … the economic analysis of unemployment insurance as it has evolved since the 1970s. …

worker-firm bargaining over wages, free entry of new jobs, and endogenous search effort among the unemployed. The main result …Should unemployment compensation be paid indefinitely at a fixed rate or should it decline (or increase) over a worker … s unemployment spell? We examine these issues using an equilibrium model of search unemployment. The model features …

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 …

The existing literature assumes that unemployment insurance (UI) affects the labor market through the job finding rate …