wage and search effort varies considerably among the groups considered. -- immigrants ; policy evaluation ; reservation … wage ; search effort ; expectations ; unemployment duration ; program evaluation ; active labor market policy …

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 …

abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … unemployment duration is positive and significant. Neglecting selectivity leads to an underestimation of the effects in absolute …

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … relative attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness …

approach provides accurate effect estimates, especially if time-varying variation in the unemployment rate of the local labor …

care system on unemployment durations. We estimate that for around 25% of unemployed workers, removing the channel that … enables strategic sick reporting reduces the mean unemployment duration by 4 days. …

Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search … capital losses. Monitoring offer rejections is less effective than monitoring search effort. -- Unemployment ; duration …

This paper studies a program that extends the maximum duration of unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to 209 weeks … regions to identify the effect of extended benefits on unemployment duration. Results indicate that the duration of job search … is prolonged by at least .09 weeks per additional week of benefits among men, whereas unemployment duration increases by …