selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …

did not affect total post-unemployment earnings indicating that the positive effects on job finding and job turnover …

Extended unemployment benefits programs are triggered by the state insured unemployment rate while intrastate demand … conditions often vary dramatically. Some tight local labor markets may therefore exhibit a large effect of extended unemployment …, the entitlement effect is stronger in low unemployment labor markets. This finding is robust across a number of …

Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …

This paper investigates the disincentive effects of the potential duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. The … effect on the exit rate out of unemployment - both to employment and to other destinations - at various durations of … unemployment spells and for many categories of unemployed workers …

Unemployment insurance recipients in the Netherlands were for a long time exempted from the requirement to actively …

Unemployment insurance recipients in the Netherlands were for a long time exempted from the requirement to actively …

Unemployment insurance recipients in the Netherlands were for a long time exempted from the requirement to actively …

Unemployment insurance recipients in the Netherlands were for a long time exempted from the requirement to actively … search requirements have a positive effect on finding rates. -- eligibility criteria ; unemployment benefits ; job finding …

In the midst of sharply rising long-term unemployment, a series of unemployment benefit (UB) eligibility extensions … ‘laws of economics' to warn that the extensions may be responsible for much of the current unemployment crisis. This … eligibility rules are not effectively enforced, so any income replacement must reduce work incentives and increase unemployment …