search activity at the moment they turned 57.5. Estimating various duration models using difference-in-difference and …

up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is … available to both wage earners and self-employed on a voluntary basis, we estimate the causal effect of UI cover on the self …-employment choice of wage earners after instrumenting for the UI choice. The instruments we use are based on a series of policy …

selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …

We study risk-based selection into a voluntary unemployment insurance (UI) scheme. To disentangle behavioral effects … from selection, we exploit variation in the sign-up induced by an early retirement scheme embedded into the UI system. We … find that individuals who sign up for UI are negatively selected in terms of subsequent unemployment. However, we find …

transition out of unemployment. We show that rationing of the demand for training increases theunemployment duration of non …

the program. The literature uses linear probability models and (Cox) proportional hazard models to predict duration … outcomes. These either focus on one threshold duration or impose proportionality. In this paper we propose a nonparametric …