, unemployment benefits should decrease with the unemployment spell. This paper, using a series of simple search models, shows that … the theoretical result regarding the optimality of a declining unemployment benefit profile is largely a result of … specific modeling assumptions and fails to hold in a more general setting. While any pure reduction of unemployment benefits …

wealth decreases, a finding which is in accordance with our empirical duration analysis using micro data on unemployment … positive duration dependence over unemployment spells via its inverse relationship with the worker's wealth …In this paper we consider a risk averse worker who is moving back and forth between employment and unemployment …

the maximum duration of benefits for three groups of agents and maintained all features of the unemployment insurance for …We test the predictions of an equilibrium search model about the effects of an increase in the maximum duration of … unemployment benefits. We use the 1999 unemployment insurance reform of Portugal, a quasi-natural experiment. The reform increased …

force, the hazard shows quite strong positive duration dependence. Men tend to be more probable to leave unemployment for …Return to employment, after a period of unemployment, is analyzed for a large sample of Swedish occupationally disabled … unemployment are accounted for; regular employment, sheltered/subsidized employment and withdrawal from the labor force. The model …

In 2001 and 2002, Sweden introduced several unemployment insurance reforms. A major innovation in the first reform was … among men and women. The two reforms in conjunction are estimated to have increased the expected duration of unemployment … among men but to have decreased the duration of unemployment among women. The overall effect on the duration of unemployment …