Reemployment bonus experiments offer large lump sum payments to unemployment insurance (UI) recipients who find a job … Illinois and discusses the implications of the experiments for theories of unemployment and policy design. I examine the hazard … rate of exit from unemployment and find that it is significantly higher for the experimental groups, but only during the …

discontinuities in eligibility for severance pay and extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits in Austria. Analyzing data for over …

employment and unemployment chances of unemployed job seekers. If anything, temporary help work seems to provide an access … techniques to estimate the stepping-stone function to regular employment of temporary help work for unemployed job seekers. Our … help employment for the unemployed, they do neither confirm the existence of adverse effects on the future regular …

implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million lost jobs by April 6th, far more than jobs lost over the entire … Great Recession. Second, many of those losing jobs are not actively looking to find new ones. As a result, we estimate the … rise in the unemployment rate over the corresponding period to be surprisingly small, only about 2 percentage points. Third …

We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in Missouri affected search behavior of … simulate the unemployment rate assuming no market-level externalities. The simulated response closely approximates the … estimated change in the unemployment rate following the benefit cut, suggesting that even in a period of high unemployment the …

understand job search among the unemployed and how job search is shaped by unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market …

In this paper, we review the literature on the "spike" in unemployment exit rates around benefit exhaustion, and … unemployment spells are measured has a large effect on the magnitude of the spike at exhaustion, both in existing studies and in … defined by the time spent on the unemployment system. In Austria, the exit rate from registered unemployment rises by over 200 …

unemployment spells are less likely to file. We show that if the decision to file for UI is affected by benefit levels and the … expected duration of unemployment, it will bias estimates of the effects of UI on unemployment duration …

61,000 persons in Spain in 1985 when unemployment exceeded 20%--to examine the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) and … benefits than for those ineligible for UI; (2) the long-term unemployed are disproportionately secondary workers for whom the … family serves as a form of welfare; (3) hazard rates linking the chances of job finding to duration of unemployment in the …

probability that the eligible unemployed would exit unemployment, concentrated among the long-term unemployed. The estimates imply … candidate explanation is supply-side effects driven by dramatic expansions of Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefit durations, to … longitudinal structure of the Current Population Survey to construct unemployment exit hazards that vary across states, over time …