lose employment faster, especially once eligible for new unemployment benefits. Job seekers assigned to JSA have similar …

"In this paper, we review the literature on the "spike" in unemployment exit rates around benefit exhaustion, and … unemployment spells are measured has a large effect on the magnitude of the spike at exhaustion, both in existing studies and in … defined by the time spent on the unemployment system. In Austria, the exit rate from registered unemployment rises by over 200 …

Diamond (1994) that an individual's probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases … the newly unemployed. This finding carries a strong warning for policy assessment: unless controlled for cyclical … fluctuations in the composition of the newly unemployed an evaluation of a policy designed to get the longterm unemployed into work …

Prior to 2020, the Great Recession was the most important macroeconomic shock to the United States economy in … Recession's official end in the summer of 2009, but because it was slow and the depth of the recession so deep, it took years to … reduce slack in labor markets. But because the slow-and-steady recovery lasted so long, many pre-recession peaks were …

This paper examines the impact of an experiment in North Macedonia in which vulnerable unemployed individuals applying …

This paper estimates the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Job search theory implies that if … Unemployment Insurance (UI) extensions do not affect wages conditional on the month of unemployment exit, then reservation wages do … not bind on average. Then, UI extensions affect mean wages only through unemployment durations and are valid instrumental …

In response to the Great Recession and sustained labor market downturn, the availability of unemployment insurance (UI … extensions across states to estimate the overall impact of these extensions on unemployment duration, comparing the experience … extensions on unemployment transitions and duration. We rely on individual variation in benefit availability based on the …

periods of unemployment in the past is particularly important: long-term unemployed people have difficulties in re …In this paper we investigate whether unemployment traps exist and are significant in the transition from unemployment …-integrating the labour market and they obtain low salaries when they succeed in finding employment. Long unemployment spells are …

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 …

This paper analyses data from a large-scale field experiment where unemployed workers were randomly assigned to an … job search. We exploit this heterogeneity in caseworker stringency and the random assignment of unemployed workers to … requirements reduces job finding. We argue that restricting the job search opportunities forces unemployed workers to search sub …