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. -- culture ; cultural transmission ; unemployment duration ; regional …This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local …

We identify the causal effect of lump-sum severance payments on non-employment duration in Norway by exploiting a … likely to exist also in other countries. -- unemployment ; optimal unemployment insurance ; liquidity constraints ; mental …

wealth decreases, a finding which is in accordance with our empirical duration analysis using micro data on unemployment … positive duration dependence over unemployment spells via its inverse relationship with the worker s wealth. …In this paper we consider a risk averse worker who is moving back and forth between employment and unemployment …

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 …

The issue of whether unemployment benefits should increase or decrease over the unemployment spell is analyzed in an … search productivity of unemployed is constant over the unemployment spell, benefits should typically increase or be constant …

for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum …-experimental situation from which a lot can be learned about the impact of unemployment insurance rules on the dynamics of employment …, unemployment, and wages. We find that the REBP led to a tremendous increase in unemployment, which was due to both an increase in …

) 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 …

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 …

This paper investigates unemployment persistence in the 27 EU member states by applying fractional integration methods …