proposing a theory-based index of exchange market pressure within the euro area. We argue that the euro area entails an inherent …

unemployment duration and probability of long term unemployment decrease. These effects are the largest when the program intensity …

We study the optimal duration of contracts in a principal-agent framework with both moral hazard and adverse selection …

Putting a limit on the duration of unemployment benefits tends to introduce a “spike” in the job finding rate shortly …

indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20 %. Moreover, we find that … as strong changes to the benefit duration …

This paper studies a program that extends the maximum duration of unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to 209 weeks … regions to identify the effect of extended benefits on unemployment duration. Results indicate that the duration of job search … is prolonged by at least .09 weeks per additional week of benefits among men, whereas unemployment duration increases by …

for just a few, often only one to three, years. In this paper, I examine empirically the duration in German import trade … characteristics, product type and market structure. Specifically, I show that the duration of exporting a product to Germany is longer …