IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'The Cost of Unemployment from a Social Welfare Approach: The Case of Spain and Its Regions' in: Social Indicators Research, 2020, 150, 955–976

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11704

How Demanding Are Activation Requirements for Jobseekers?

Herwig Immervoll, Carlo Knotz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10487

Imperfect Monitoring of Job Search: Structural Estimation and Policy Design

Bart Cockx, Muriel Dejemeppe, Andrey Launov, Bruno Van der Linden

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36 (1), 75-120

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9967

Optimal Unemployment Benefit Policy and the Firm Productivity Distribution

Tomer Blumkin, Leif Danziger, Eran Yashiv

published in: International Tax and Public Finance 2017, 24, 36-59

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9967

Optimal Unemployment Benefit Policy and the Firm Productivity Distribution

Tomer Blumkin, Leif Danziger, Eran Yashiv

published in: International Tax and Public Finance 2017, 24, 36-59

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9940

Migrant Workers and the Welfare State

Torben M. Andersen, Silvia Migali

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9868

Disincentive Effects of Unemployment Benefits and the Role of Caseworkers

Johannes F. Schmieder, Simon Trenkle

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 182, 104096

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9782

Nonparametric Instrumental Variable Methods for Dynamic Treatment Evaluation

Gerard J. van den Berg, Petyo Bonev, Enno Mammen

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (2), 355–367.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9548

The Effect of Unemployment Benefit Generosity on Unemployment Duration: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Slovenia

Matija Vodopivec, Suzana Laporsek, Primož Dolenc, Milan Vodopivec

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9089

Can Helping the Sick Hurt the Able? Incentives, Information and Disruption in a Disability-Related Welfare Reform

Nitika Bagaria, Barbara Petrongolo, John Van Reenen

published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (624), 3189-3218

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9035

State Dependence in Welfare Receipt: Transitions Before and After a Reform

Regina T. Riphahn, Christoph Wunder

published in: Empirical Economics, 2016, 50 (4), 1303-1329

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8784

The Effect of Extended Unemployment Insurance Benefits: Evidence from the 2012-2013 Phase-Out

Henry S Farber, Jesse Rothstein, Robert G. Valletta

published in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (5), 171 - 176

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8336

The Effects of Reducing the Entitlement Period to Unemployment Insurance Benefits

Nynke De Groot, Bas van der Klaauw

published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 57, 195-208

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8247

Recent Extensions of U.S. Unemployment Benefits: Search Responses in Alternative Labor Market States

Robert G. Valletta

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2014, 3

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8164

Low-Skill Offshoring: Labor Market Policies and Welfare Effects

Pablo Agnese, Jana Hromcová

published as 'Low-skill offshoring and welfare compensation policies' in: Economic Modelling, 2016, 52, part B, 408 - 426

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8022

Scraping By: Income and Program Participation After the Loss of Extended Unemployment Benefits

Jesse Rothstein, Robert G. Valletta

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7888

Employment Dynamics and Redistributive Policies under Workers' Social Norms

Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira, Teresa Lloyd-Braga, Leonor Modesto

published as 'The destabilizing effects of the social norm to work under a social security system' in: Mathematical Social Sciences, 2015, 76, 64-72

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7659

Thumbscrews for Agencies or for Individuals? How to Reduce Unemployment

Andrey Launov, Klaus Wälde

substantially revised version published as 'The Employment Effect of Reforming a Public Employment Agency' in: European Economic Review, 2016, 84, 140-164

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7630

Sanctions for Young Welfare Recipients

Gerard J. van den Berg, Arne Uhlendorff, Joachim Wolff

published in: Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2014, 177-208

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7400

Seek and Ye Shall Find: How Search Requirements Affect Job Finding Rates of Older Workers

Patrick Hullegie, Jan C. van Ours

published in De Economist, 2014, 162 (4), 377 - 395

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7291

The Role of Short-Time Work Schemes during the Global Financial Crisis and Early Recovery: A Cross-Country Analysis

Alexander Hijzen, Sébastien Martin

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2013, 2:5

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7193

Unemployment and Subsequent Employment Stability: Does Labour Market Policy Matter?

Melike Wulfgramm, Lukas Fervers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6918

Aggregate Earnings and Macroeconomic Shocks: The Role of Labour Market Policies and Institutions

Andrea Bassanini

published in: Review of Economics and Institutions, 2012, 3 (3), Article 1

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6650

Estimating the Latent Effect of Unemployment Benefits on Unemployment Duration

Simon M.S. Lo, Gesine Stephan, Ralf Wilke

fundamentally revised version published as 'Competing Risks Copula Models for Unemployment Duration: An Application to a German Hartz Reform' in Journal of Econometric Methods, 2017, 6, 1-20

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6181

Monitoring, Sanctions and Front-Loading of Job Search in a Non-Stationary Model

Bart Cockx, Muriel Dejemeppe, Andrey Launov, Bruno Van der Linden

for substantially revised version please see IZA DP 10487

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6075

Unemployment Benefits and Immigration: Evidence from the EU

Corrado Giulietti, Martin Guzi, Martin Kahanec, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (1), 24-38

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5241

Relative Income, Redistribution and Well-being

Felix FitzRoy, Michael A. Nolan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5236

Efficient Redistribution: Comparing Basic Income with Unemployment Benefits

Felix FitzRoy, Jim Jin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5196

Business Cycle Dependent Unemployment Insurance

Torben M. Andersen, Michael Svarer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4958

Estimating Incentive and Welfare Effects of Non-Stationary Unemployment Benefits

Andrey Launov, Klaus Wälde

revised version published in: International Economic Review, 2013, 54 (4), 1159-1198

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4924

Macroeconomic Volatilities and the Labor Market: First Results from the Euro Experiment

Christian Merkl, Tom Schmitz

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 27 (1), 44-60

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4670

Benefit Duration, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality: A Regression-Discontinuity Approach

Marco Caliendo, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Arne Uhlendorff

published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013, 28 (4), 604-627

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4523

Why Is There a Spike in the Job Finding Rate at Benefit Exhaustion?

Jan Boone, Jan C. van Ours

published in: De Economist, 2012, 160 (4), 413-438

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3920

The Effect of Receiving Supplementary UI Benefits on Unemployment Duration

Tomi Kyyrä, Pierpaolo Parrotta, Michael Rosholm

published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 21, 122-133

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3772

Wage Subsidies for Needy Job-Seekers and Their Effect on Individual Labour Market Outcomes after the German Reforms

Sarah Bernhard, Hermann Gartner, Gesine Stephan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3667

Job Search and Unemployment Insurance: New Evidence from Time Use Data

Alan B. Krueger, Andreas I. Mueller

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (3-4), 298-307

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3490

The Lot of the Unemployed: A Time Use Perspective

Alan B. Krueger, Andreas I. Mueller

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (4), 765–794

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3371

Do Unemployment Benefits Promote or Hinder Structural Change?

Tito Boeri, Mario Macis

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 39, 109-125

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3357

Unemployment Benefits and Reservation Wages: Key Elasticities from a Stripped-Down Job Search Approach

John T. Addison, Mario Centeno, Pedro Portugal

published in: Economica, 2010, 77 (305), 46–59

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3289

Do Reservation Wages Really Decline? Some International Evidence on the Determinants of Reservation Wages

John T. Addison, Mario Centeno, Pedro Portugal

published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2009, 30 (1), 1 - 8

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3141

Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts and Collective Wage Determination

Laszlo Goerke

published as 'The Effects of Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts in the Presence of Collective Bargaining Contracts' in: W. Franz, H.-J. Ramser, M. Stadler (Hrsg.), Arbeitsverträge – Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Seminar Ottobeuren, Tübingen, 2008, 37, 199-226

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3016

How Do Different Entitlements to Unemployment Benefits Affect the Transitions from Unemployment into Employment?

John T. Addison, Pedro Portugal

published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 101 (3), 206-209

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3003

A Positive Theory of the Earnings Relationship of Unemployment Benefits

Laszlo Goerke, Markus Pannenberg, Heinrich W. Ursprung

published in: Public Choice, 2010, 145 (1-2), 137-163

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2179

Transition with Heterogeneous Labor

Katalin Balla, János Köllő, András Simonovits

published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2008, 19 (3), 203-220.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2105

Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives

Alessio J. G. Brown, Mike Orszag, Dennis J. Snower

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2008, 24 (3), 587-604

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1928

Civic Attitudes and the Design of Labor Market Institutions: Which Countries Can Implement the Danish Flexicurity Model?

Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc

published as "Civic Virtue and Labor Market Institutions" in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2009, 1(1), 111-145

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1314

Key Elasticities in Job Search Theory: International Evidence

John T. Addison, Mario Centeno, Pedro Portugal

published as 'Unemployment Benefits and Reservation Wages: Key Elasticities from a Stripped-Down Job Search Approach' in Economica, 2010, 77 (305), 46-59.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1172

On the Optimality of Search Matching Equilibrium When Workers Are Risk Averse

Etienne Lehmann, Bruno Van der Linden

published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2007, 9 (5), 867-884

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1161

Unemployment Benefits and Unemployment Rates of Low-Skilled and Elder Workers in West Germany: A Search Equilibrium Approach

Andrey Launov, Joachim Wolff, Stephan Klasen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1000

Experiments on Unemployment Benefit Sanctions and Job Search Behavior

Jan Boone, Abdolkarim Sadrieh, Jan C. van Ours

published in: European Economic Review, 2009, 53 (8), 937-951

IZA Discussion Paper No. 978