Similar to numerous other European countries, Germany's unemployment policy went through a paradigm shift in 2005 … evidence for whether an intended positive effect of benefit sanctions on employment entry of welfare recipients has been bought … draw causal inference of sanction enforcements on unemployment exit hazards. Based on a novel survey sample covering the …

entitlement of the maximum unemployment benefit duration to identify the medium-run effects of reduced benefit durations on post-unemployment … quality of job-matches. On the contrary, shortened benefit durations improve medium-run earnings and employment possibly …

Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and …

This paper examines the effects of unemployment benefit duration in Finland. To overcome the problem that the maximum … period, potential benefit duration at the beginning of unemployment spells varies across individuals because only those with … number of employment weeks required for the new benefit period. Using the exogenous part of the variation for identification …

. Also the re-employment probability and post-unemployment wage are negatively affected. The results for the duration of the … first post-unemployment job are not conclusive, but in total both employment and earnings in the two years following the …This paper analyzes the effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits on unemployment exits and subsequent labor …

The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This paper … evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 …

Approximately 10 percent of Unemployment Insurance (UI) claimants in the United States are denied benefits after being …