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 …

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 …

fired. Therefore a country with a high or an increasing unemployment rate has a low (reported) workplace accident rate. The … inversely related to both the level of unemployment and the change in unemployment. Furthermore, fatal accident rated do not …

We study how changes in the maximum benefit duration affect the inflow into unemployment in the Netherlands. Until … August 2003, workers who became unemployed after age 57.5 were entitled to unemployment benefits until the age of 65, after … which they would receive old age pensions. This characteristic made it attractive for workers to enter unemployment shortly …

also find that the quality of the post-unemployment jobs was not affected by the activation program. Both findings confirm …

also find that the quality of the post-unemployment jobs was not affected by the activation program. Both findings confirm …

Our paper revisits Okun's relationship between observed unemployment rates and output gaps. We include in the … unemployment rate) over time. The Okun coefficient is not only different for young, prime-age and older workers, it decreases with … reducing the overall unemployment rate, it will also have the distributional effect of lowering youth unemployment …