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

providing an employment subsidy to any firm hiring workers from the LM. Eligibility duration varies with the worker's age at … dismissal. We exploit the variability of these provisions to evaluate the impact of extending the duration of eligibility on re …

This paper studies a program that extends the maximum duration of unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to 209 weeks …. Interestingly, this program is targeted to individuals aged 50 years or older, living in certain eligible regions in Austria. In the … regions to identify the effect of extended benefits on unemployment duration. Results indicate that the duration of job search …

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

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 …

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

duration dependence in the exit rates to employment and potential depreciation in reemployment wages. We show that the main …

a large and generous parental leave extension in Austria exploiting a sharp birthday cutoff-based discontinuity in the …

-in-difference approaches, this paper exploits an unanticipated reform in Austria which extended the maximum duration of paid and job protected …This paper investigates the question whether long-term human capital outcomes are affected by the duration of maternity …