Findings of prolonged non-employment spells due to more generous unemployment benefits are commonly seen as an …. Instrumental variables estimates further provide causal evidence on the direct relationship between search effort and unemployment …

This paper studies how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects individuals’ job search behavior and re …-employment outcomes. We exploit an unexpected reform of the German unemployment insurance scheme in 2008, which increased the potential … over the first two months of unemployment. Treatment effects on the reservation wage are positive but statistically …

different large-scale quasi-experiments on changing potential benefit duration (PBD) in unemployment insurance (UI). Thereby, we …

This paper studies how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects individuals' job search behavior and re …-employment outcomes. We exploit an unexpected reform of the German unemployment insurance scheme in 2008, which increased the potential … over the first two months of unemployment. Treatment effects on the reservation wage are positive but statistically …

different large-scale quasi-experiments on changing potential benefit duration (PBD) in unemployment insurance (UI). Thereby, we …

Findings of prolonged non-employment spells due to more generous unemployment benefits are commonly seen as an …. Instrumental variables estimates further provide causal evidence on the direct relationship between search effort and unemployment …

Enforcing the compliance with job search obligations is a core task of conditional benefit systems like unemployment … fewer months in employment within the considered post-unemployment period. We use these estimates to quantify the …

construct a new dataset on the number and nature of crime incidents and arrested offenders at island level using official police … relationship between immigration and crime. We find that a 1-percentage-point increase in the share of refugees on destination … islands increases crime incidents by 1.7-2.5 percentage points compared with neighboring unexposed islands. This is driven by …

construct a new dataset on the number and nature of crime incidents and arrested offenders at island level using official police … relationship between immigration and crime. We find that a 1-percentage-point increase in the share of refugees on destination … islands increases crime incidents by 1.7-2.5 percentage points compared with neighboring unexposed islands. This is driven by …

We provide evidence about voters' response to crime control policies. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the … were more likely to report crime news involving pardoned individuals; ii) voters held worse beliefs on the incumbent … governments ability to control crime and iii) with respect to the previous elections, the incumbent national government …