While extensive research on unemployment insurance (UI) has examined how benefits affect workers' job search, little is … duration distributions, also affecting workers already eligible for UI. Our findings have two implications: first, UI shapes …

Similar to numerous other European countries, Germany's unemployment policy went through a paradigm shift in 2005 … draw causal inference of sanction enforcements on unemployment exit hazards. Based on a novel survey sample covering the …

The empirical literature on unemployment insurance has focused on its direct effect on unemployment duration, while the … evidence on the effect of unemployment benefits on unemployment and employment duration in Europe, using individual data from … benefits has a direct negative effect increasing the duration of unemployment spells, there is also a positive indirect effect …

The paper examines the influence of unemployment insurance on the duration of employment spells in Canada using the … unemployment insurance effects. Estimates using simple proxies for eligibility indicate small, often insignificant UI effects. The …

Unemployment insurance is usually found to show negative effects in the transition from unemployment to a new job …. However, the extent to which workers' careers might improve or deteriorate as a result of the unemployment insurance system is …. Finally, we get that shortening the duration of the benefit entitlement period does not seem to lead to significant gains in …

EWE is a consequence of one of the most important labor institutions: the unemployment benefit (UB). We develop a model …

(carrots) and restrictive (sticks) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations …, employment, and post-unemployment earnings using register data that contain PES and case-worker identifiers for about 130,000 job … seekers. The results show that "carrots" and "sticks" treatments prolong unemployment, but carrots increase earnings whereas …

) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations, employment, and postunemployment … intensive carrots and sticks regimes each reduce unemployment durations, but with carrots regimes this raises earnings whereas …

(carrots) and restrictive (sticks) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations …, employment, and post-unemployment earnings using register data that contain PES and case-worker identifiers for about 130,000 job … seekers.The results show that "carrots" and "sticks" treatments prolong unemployment, but carrots increase earnings whereas …