Extended unemployment benefits programs in the US are triggered by the state insured unemployment rate while intrastate … extended unemployment benefits. Using a competing risk duration model, this paper measures the size of the entitlement effect … job hazard, the entitlement effect is stronger in low unemployment labor markets. This finding is robust across a number …

The system of Unemployment Insurance (UI) financing in the US draws its funds from a payroll tax on employers and … measures the effect of the UI financing system on the duration of unemployment. Using duration data is essential since tax … charges to the firm vary over the duration of unemployment spells. Empirical results based on data with various sources of …

the duration of unemployment spells. The data basis used in this study is the German Socio-Economic- Panel (GSOEP) for … measures. Our main results show that training does have a significant short term effect of reducing unemploy-ment duration but …

In this study we are concerned with the impact of vocational training on the individual's unemployment duration in West … unemployment duration. Our results indicate, that training raises the transition rate of unemployed into employment in the short as …

relationship between unemployment and growth. We distinguish low-skilled and high-skilled labour and assume that a union bargains … over the low-skilled labour wage. This causes unemployment, but the growth e ect is ambiguous. On the one hand the higher …