The job finding rate of Unemployment Insurance (UI) recipients declines in the initial months of unemployment and then … effort. The panel structure allows us to observe how search effort evolves within individual over the unemployment spell. We …

by unemployment insurance. The model features a detailedspecification of the tax and transfer system, including … unemployment insurance benefitswhich depend on an individual's employment and earnings history. The model also capturesthe … of unemployment insurance operationalized as a reduction in the entitlementperiod generates a larger increase in …

long-run loss is due to a decline in wages. We also show that even the generous German unemployment insurance system … Displacement ; Mass-Layoffs ; Unemployment Insurance System …

This paper evaluates the impact of large changes in the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) in different economic … unemployment spells and career histo-ries over twenty years from Germany. We find that increases in UI have small to modest effects … UI during recessions do not lead to lasting increases in unemployment duration, nor can they explain differ-ences in …