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 …

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

extensions across states to estimate the overall impact of these extensions on unemployment duration, comparing the experience … extensions on unemployment transitions and duration. We rely on individual variation in benefit availability based on the … duration of unemployment spells and the length of UI benefits available in the state and month, conditional on state economic …

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 …

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 …

on their interactions with the profile of unemployment benefits and with active labor market programs. …

unemployment and on unemployment duration, as well as on wage distributions. The effect of introducing a simple unemployment … insurance scheme is then twofold. First, it increases unemployment by allowing a greater proportion of low types not to match … positive effect of unemployment insurance on productivity and find the optimal level of unemployment insurance. Finally, it is …

We examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and unemployment using Swedish regional data. To estimate the … effect of an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) on unemployment we exploit the ceiling on UI benefits. The benefit … find fairly robust evidence suggesting that the actual generosity of UI does matter for regional unemployment. Increases in …