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 …

being either in regular employment or registered unemployment. Our findings therefore do not lend support to the stepping …

(such as temporary contracts and mini-jobs) as well as unemployment. This combined unstable state captures a fuller picture … of the individual experience of volatile income and uncertain employment status than unemployment alone. We find that the … survival rates of unstable spells in the two countries are much more similar than those from unemployment. This suggests that …

(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 …

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 …

to escape unemployment by becoming self-employed or being hired at an initially reduced cost for the employer. > In … by comparing the post-program duration of employment for the two programs. In addition, we focus in some detail on the … selection process may bias the effect estimate in the non-linear duration model that we use. Simulations help us to determine …

unemployment, its average duration exceeding 14 years. We present a micro-econometric exploration of the underlying process. The … for the years to come. We estimate long-term non-employment and its duration by means of Italian longitudinal databases of …

(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 …

While extensive research on unemployment insurance (UI) has examined how benefits affect workers' job search, little is … posting vacancies - before meeting workers - rather than only through ex post adjustments. This response shifts contract … duration distributions, also affecting workers already eligible for UI. Our findings have two implications: first, UI shapes …