-term unemployment assistance (UA). The reform raised the minimum age to receive unlimited-duration UA from 52 to 55. Using a difference …-in-differences design, we document that shorter benefits caused (i) shorter non-employment duration, especially among younger workers; (ii …

in slack markets, i.e. with only few vacancies per job seeker. Job seekers received suggestions about suitable … all eligible job seekers registered to search in the target occupations. The vast majority of treated job seekers open the …

employment is the efficient unemployment rate, u*. We define u* as the unemployment rate that minimizes the nonproductive use of … vacancies, u + v. Through the Beveridge curve, the number of vacancies is inversely related to the number of jobseekers. With … such symmetry, the labor market is efficient when there are as many jobseekers as vacancies (u = v), too tight when there …

How has the internet affected search and hiring, and what are the implications for aggregate unemployment? Answering … these questions empirically has proven difficult due to selection in internet use and difficulty in measuring the search … seekers, and vacancies. Our empirical analysis shows that the internet expansion led more firms to recruit online and caused 9 …

We propose that the natural rate of unemployment has an active role in the business cycle, in contrast to the … Phillips-curve framework of low---often extremely low---response of inflation to unemployment could be the result of fairly … most Phillips-curve studies, that conclude that inflation has little relation to unemployment. We suggest that the flat …

This study documents how job seekers update perceived job-finding prospects by unemployment duration and by learning … about aggregate unemployment. We find that job seekers perceive an 18% decline in their job-finding probability for each … additional month of unemployment, but perceive a higher job-finding probability when the aggregate unemployment rate is …

variables while it is uncorrelated with life satisfaction. The unemployment rate and the CPI reduce both. We analyze data for 29 … European countries to predict changes in the unemployment rate 12 months ahead using individuals' fears of unemployment in the … presence of country and year fixed effects and lagged unemployment. We also use firms' expectations of future employment, which …

This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in … difficult-to-explain trends in the unemployment rate of older German workers …

We systematically review studies of how unemployment benefits affect unemployment duration. Statistically significant …