unemployment benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, and discuss implementation issues that may arise in similar … nonparametric estimation (e.g. Imbens et al. (2012) and Calonico et al. (2014)) are sometimes interpreted by practitioners as … pointing to a default estimation procedure, we show that in any given application different procedures may perform better or …

unemployment insurance benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, where the benefit schedule has kinks at the minimum and …We consider nonparametric identification and estimation in a nonseparable model where a continuous regressor of … institutional settings where a policy variable (such as weekly unemployment benefits) is determined by an observed but potentially …

unemployment insurance on (formal) reemployment in Brazil, and show that our bounds remain informative, despite the fact that …

We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment …

defined by the time spent on the unemployment system. In Austria, the exit rate from registered unemployment rises by over 200 …In this paper, we review the literature on the "spike" in unemployment exit rates around benefit exhaustion, and … present new evidence based on administrative data for a large sample of job losers in Austria. We find that the way …

During the Great Recession, U.S. unemployment benefits were extended by up to 73 weeks. Theory predicts that extensions … benefit duration by 10% increases unemployment by only 0.6% in equilibrium … increase unemployment by discouraging job search, a partial equilibrium effect. Using data from the large job board …

error in unemployment rates as an exogenous variation. Unfortunately, we find that this approach falls prey to the very … the effects of unemployment benefit extensions on the labor market and attempt to reconcile their apparently disparate …

unemployment exit rate and a small increase in the expected duration of unemployment. The effects on exits and duration are …In response to the Great Recession, the availability of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits was extended to an … individual exit from unemployment, and we compare the estimated impact with that for the prior extension of benefits during the …

It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations. This result has traditionally been … hazard. This paper questions this interpretation by showing that unemployment benefits can also affect durations through an … proxies such as asset holdings. I find that increases in unemployment benefits have small effects on durations in the …

standard job search theory, the paper derives and tests conditions on reemployment wages under which Unemployment Insurance (UI …) extensions can be used as instrumental variables (IV) for unemployment duration. Using a regression discontinuity design, the … substantial negative effects of unemployment duration on wages of 0.8% per month …