Unemployment benefits often reduce incentives to search for a job. Policymakers have responded to this behaviour by … setting minimum job search requirements, by monitoring to check that unemployment benefit recipients are engaged in the … search monitoring and benefit sanctions reduce unemployment duration and increase job entry in the short term. There is some …

Families (TANF) become jobless, apply for and receive unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, and participate in publicly funded …

Recent efforts to expand unemployment insurance (UI) eligibility are expected to increase low-earning workers' access …

We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment … balances in these accounts are available to them during periods of unemployment. The government is able to undertake balanced … model for the high unemployment countries of Europe. Our results suggest that this policy reform would significantly change …

public social expenditures and a high unemployment rate are associated with a small positive (or no) immediate impact on …

public social expenditures and a high unemployment rate are associated with a small positive (or no) immediate impact on …

of unemployment insurance and severance payments on the duration of unemployment and on the separation probability in … Argentina. Administrative data permits analysis of the duration of unemployment of covered spells with detailed information … informal jobs, which are not observed in administrative data. It is found that unemployment duration increases significantly …

public social expenditures and a high unemployment rate are associated with a small positive (or no) immediate impact on …