unemployment as well as across different subgroups of participants. We find that participating in short-term training reduces the … remaining time in unemployment and moderately increases job stability. Long-term training programs initially prolong the … remaining time in unemployment, but once the scheduled program end is reached participants exit to employment at a much faster …

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 …

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 …

We identify the causal effect of lump-sum severance payments on non-employment duration in Norway by exploiting a …

bias in labor court activity - that is, court activity varies systematically with the political leaning of the government … unemployment, even after controlling for the endogeneity of court activity. The results have potentially important policy …

unemployment duration and probability of long term unemployment decrease. These effects are the largest when the program intensity … program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non …

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 … jobs are permanent. We use a dataset on Slovenian unemployment spells to test this prediction and find supporting evidence …. We conclude that the spike in the job finding rate suggests that workers exploit unemployment insurance benefits for …

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 …