We empirically investigate how two-tier unemployment compensation schemes affect the profile of re-employment hazards …-employment hazard. Our results indicate that two-tier unemployment compensation schemes might create a long-term unemployment trap: If … employers rank applicants by their duration in unemployment, incentivizing all job seekers to exert higher search efforts may …

Long-term unemployment can lead to skill attrition and have detrimental effects on future employment prospects …, particularly following periods of economic crises when employment growth is slow and cannot accommodate high levels of unemployment … costeffective and efficient means of reducing unemployment, during both periods of economic stability and recovery. …

abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … unemployment duration is positive and significant. Neglecting selectivity leads to an underestimation of the effects in absolute …

abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … unemployment duration is positive and significant. Neglecting selectivity leads to an underestimation of the effects in absolute …

, generous unemployment insurance and active labor market programmes. It analyzes in which conditions flexicurity can be optimal …, with firms more likely to survive and thus not exposing much their workers to unemployment risk. Activation programmes … support the reallocation flow from unproductive to productive firms, helping to reduce unemployment. Low employment protection …

out of unemployment along with the sanction rate and hazard rate into active labour market programmes. We optimally select …

Unemployment benefits, benefit duration, base period and qualifying period are constituent parameters of the … unemployment insurance system in most OECD countries. From economic research we know that the amount and duration of unemployment … benefits increase unemployment. To analyze the effects of the other two parameters we use a matching model with search …

The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty …: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The unemployment vouchers are targeted exclusively at the unemployed (especially the … workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …

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 …