A large fraction of the eligible unemployed workers does not claim for unemployment insurance (UI) and, among claimants … the sample faces high claiming frictions, many have good employment prospects and exit unemployment quickly. The burden of … little effect on aggregate unemployment duration. Additionally we show that the link between claiming and job search efforts …

mobility, while unemployment increases in the country with labor market rigidities, reducing welfare. We also find that taste …

We analyze for the first time the welfare effects of unemployment benefits (UBs) in a context of high informality …

job finding networks. Using matched employer-employee data from Hungary, this paper relates the unemployment duration of …

We ran a large randomized controlled experiment among about 150,000 recipients of unemployment benefits insurance in … France in order to evaluate the impact of part-time unemployment benefits. We took advantage of the lack of knowledge of job … impact on the propensity to work while on claim, but reduced the unemployment exit rate, showing important lock-in effects …