search monitoring and benefit sanctions reduce unemployment duration and increase job entry in the short term. There is some …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 …

Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …

Economists often expect unemployment insurance (UI) benefits to elevate unemployment rates because recipients may … more gradually in 2013 likely contributed to declines in unemployment and participation rates beyond what one would expect … transitions from unemployment to dropping out of the labor force, thus reducing the unemployment rate and the labor force …

market flows and reduce unemployment duration. Without attempting to evaluate the specific components of these Hartz reforms …Starting in January 2003, Germany implemented the first two so-called Hartz reforms, followed by the third and fourth …

market than unemployment or social welfare beneficiaries. Our findings support higher retirement age-the age when workers …

In the midst of sharply rising long-term unemployment, a series of unemployment benefit (UB) eligibility extensions … ‘laws of economics' to warn that the extensions may be responsible for much of the current unemployment crisis. This … eligibility rules are not effectively enforced, so any income replacement must reduce work incentives and increase unemployment …

Exploiting an unemployment insurance (UI) reform in Brazil, we study incentive effects of UI in the presence of …

This paper finds that unemployment insurance sanctions substantially raise individual transition rates from … unemployment to employment. Sanctions are punitive benefits reductions that are supposed to make recipients comply with certain … of individuals who started collecting unemployment insurance in the Netherlands in 1992. We deal with various forms of …