The relationship between unemployment benefit duration, unemployment duration and subsequent job duration is … be correlated with unemployment duration as well as accepted job duration. I examine two potential explanations for the … relationship between unemployment and job spell durations; UI benefits increase job matching quality vs unobserved heterogeneity. I …

This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with two destination … unemployment. Although we do not reject the null of proportionality, abandoning the proportionality assumption does not materially …

unemployment into either new job or recall. The recall probability is allowed to affect the search intensity for new jobs. …

This paper analyzes the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort … featuring indefinite payments of benefits and a system with a time limit on unemployment benefit receipt. The optimal sanction …