unemployment only and not heterogeneous with respect to individual characteristics or unemployment duration, we conclude that only … changes is, nonetheless, strongly debated. We contribute to this discussion by analyzing the effect of unemployment on LOC … unemployment. Overall, we find a significant shift in stated LOC due to unemployment. Because the effect is observable during …

benefit duration (PBD) within the German UI system, we find that longer PBD leads to longer actual unemployment duration for … for those individuals becoming re-employed. With increasing unemployment benefit duration, the founders’ outcomes in terms … unemployment, most research has focused on analyzing the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) policies on reemployment outcomes …

, ignoring self-employment. In this paper, we analyze how the potential duration of unemployment benefits, a fundamental design … of unemployment benefits, we find that longer potential benefit duration implies longer actual unemployment and, as a …Business creation is economically important, and unemployment precedes the creation of a substantial share of new firms …

impairments and above-average duration of welfare dependence. The program effects decline over time, which cannot be explained by …

We offer a decomposition for the variance of the current unemployment rate that not only measures the contributions of …

I calculate unemployment multipliers of fiscal consolidation policies in a standard, closed-economy New Keynesian … percentage of family firms in the labor force. I find that fiscal austerity raises unemployment. Both at peak and cumulatively …, unemployment reacts least when the budget is consolidated by increasing the rate of value-added tax. At peak, the highest increase …

extensive margin of (self-)employment and on unemployment duration. We find heterogeneous effects on the extensive margin: while … reduced UI benefits extend unemployment duration for individuals transitioning into self-employment but shorten unemployment …Although a meaningful percentage of firms are created out of unemployment and current active labor market policies in …

Unemployment duration data derived from retrospective surveys often show an abnormal concentration of responses at … research based on unemployment duration data derived from the retrospective calendar information in the German Socio … certain durations. This common kind of measurement error is known as "heaping" in the statistical literature. Although heaping …