negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …

Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search …-2004. We estimate duration models dealing with selection on unobservables. We use weighted exogenous sampling maximum …

The objective of this paper is to examine the extent to which an individual’s use of unemployment insurance (UI) as a …

at unemployment with special emphasis on the schemes complementing compensation from the unemployment insurance scheme … prolonged periods of unemployment. Of special interest is that those complementing systems differ between different sectors of …

; 6) time devoted to job search is fairly constant regardless of unemployment duration for those who are ineligible for UI … 50 states and D.C., job search is inversely related to the generosity of unemployment benefits, with an elasticity … of 2.5; 5) job search intensity for those eligible for Unemployment Insurance (UI) increases prior to benefit exhaustion …

receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …

The paper describes and evaluates unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) – a relatively new and not well …-known way of providing unemployment benefits. The UISAs reduce work disincentives by allowing recipients to keep their own … unused unemployment contributions, and offer the possibility to extend coverage to informal sector workers. In addition, if …

, analyzes how these differences affect the working of the standard, OECD-style unemployment insurance (UI) program, and derives … a desirable design of unemployment benefit program in developing countries. It argues that these countries – faced by …, and to minimize administration cots, such adaptations include: (i) relying on self-insurance (via unemployment insurance …

This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high … to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported reservation wages decline at a modest rate over the spell of unemployment, with … point estimates ranging from 0.05 to 0.14 percent per week of unemployment. The decline in reservation wages is driven …