"The empirical literature on unemployment insurance has focused on its direct effect on unemployment duration, while … of the unemployment insurance system aiming at reducing high European unemployment rates should consider both effects …. This paper provides evidence on the effect of unemployment benefits on unemployment and employment duration in Europe …

The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed … entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite … the disincentive effect of UI on unemployment duration, UI benefit generosity may also increase job match quality by …

heterogeneity and to the endogeneity of displacement. -- Job displacement ; job loss ; unemployment duration ; retirement …

acting as an information transmission mechanism. -- networks ; unemployment ; friendship ties …

"This paper studies the effect of unemployment benefits on the unemployment and subsequent employment duration using … heterogeneity. We find that recipients, relative to non-recipients, face lower exit rates from unemployment, while an additional … month in unemployment increases their subsequent employment stability. This positive correlation between previous …