-term unemployment insurance has not received much attention. In this paper we examine distributional effects of labour earnings and … unemployment benefits using simulated increases in unemployment insurance replacement rates or equivalently, increases in the net … negative labour supply effects, drawing those employed into unemployment shifting the mass of the earnings distribution to the …

covering the development on an aggregate level. Estimations to shed light on the relation between unemployment and labour force … years. However, the impact of this development on unemployment is rather limited. …

, whereby special focus is placed on unemployment duration. The results of the study indicate that in contrast to reservation … wages, offered wages decline considerably with duration of unemployment. This is the main reason that ratios of reserva …­tion wages to offered wages increase rapidly with duration of unemploy­ment; on average, reservation wages begin to exceed …

employment is a type of wage subsidy paid to unemployed workers and they do not lose their unemployment benefits if the wage is … unemployment spell suffer a (causal) penalty for doing so, relative to their peers who do not. The penalty, in terms of less … employment, more unemployment, lower wages, lessens over time but is still present after three years. …

employment is a type of wage subsidy paid to unemployed workers and they do not lose their unemployment benefits if the wage is … more likely to select into such jobs. The unemployed who start to work in marginal employment during their unemployment …, more unemployment, lower wages, lessens over time but is still present after three years. …

production. With respect to labour market coordination, we discuss several wage-forming mechanisms and involuntary unemployment. …

characteristics of the unemployed are the most important determinants of reservation wages. In contrast neither unemployment duration … nor different kinds of unemployment benefits influence reservation wages. Hence the findings corroborate the hypothesis …