unemployment and its duration distribution. Using the SIPP, we document the relation between workers' (gross and net) occupational … mobility and unemployment duration over the long run and business cycle. To interpret this evidence, we develop an analytically … prospects interacts with aggregate conditions to drive fluctuations of aggregate unemployment and its duration distribution …

increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high …

among men and women. The two reforms in conjunction are estimated to have increased the expected duration of unemployment … among men but to have decreased the duration of unemployment among women. The overall effect on the duration of unemployment …In 2001 and 2002, Sweden introduced several unemployment insurance reforms. A major innovation in the first reform was …

) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) – affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made … unemployment insurance more generous by changing, simultaneously, the maximum duration of regular unemployment benefits and the … the maximum duration of benefits. We use these results to split up the total costs to unemployment insurance funds into …

This paper studies how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects individuals' job search behavior and re …-employment outcomes. We exploit an unexpected reform of the German unemployment insurance scheme in 2008, which increased the potential … benefit duration from 12 to 15 months for recipients of age 50 to 54. Based on detailed survey data and difference …

indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20 %. Moreover, we find that …This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings …

negatively-sloped Beveridge curve. Moreover, the model exhibits unemployment duration dependence, which (when calibrated to long …We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous … countercyclical unemployment, and is simultaneously consistent with procyclical reallocation, countercyclical separations and a …

economy permanently operates below capacity due to both structural unemployment and underemployment. The latter is a direct … demand and supply shocks are opposite to those of the standard case and result in a co-movement of unemployment and … explain movements of unemployment and underemployment in opposite directions. Finally, we show that fluctuations in the total …

random assignment of job seekers to caseworkers. We find that the duration of un- and non-employment both decrease by 3% if …, an additionally provided monthly application decreases the length of spells by 4%. In line with theory, we further find … small negative effects on job stability, reducing the duration of re-employment spells by 0.3% per required application. We …