The issue of whether unemployment benefits should increase or decrease over the unemployment spell is analyzed in a … productivity of unemployed is constant over the unemployment spell, benefits should typically increase or be constant. The only …

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 …Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However …

We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in Missouri affected search behavior of … effect of maximum duration on UI and nonemployment spells of approximately 0.45 and 0.25 respectively. We use the RDD … estimates to simulate the unemployment rate assuming no market-level externalities. The simulated response, which implies almost …

We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment …

Recent papers identify the effects of unemployment insurance and potential benefit duration (PBD) on unemployment … duration and reemployment wages using quasi-experiments. To make known problems of heterogeneity in quasi-experiments tractable … first line out a framework for treatment effect heterogeneity with two interdependent outcomes, such as duration and wages …

' reemployment wages on average, but did not affect wages conditional on unemployment duration. Resulting IV estimates imply … substantial negative effects of unemployment duration on wages of 0.8% per month. …This paper estimates the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Job search theory implies that if …

The paper analyses the effects of a 2011 increase in the unemployment benefit replacement rate on the job-finding rate … of Slovenian benefit recipients. Using registry data on the universe of Slovenian unemployment benefit recipients, we … decreased the hazard rate of the transition from unemployment to employment, with an implied elasticity of the hazard rate with …

The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This paper … evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 …

France in order to evaluate the impact of part-time unemployment benefits. We took advantage of the lack of knowledge of job … into unemployment associated with part-time unemployment benefits. The importance of these lock-in effects implies that …We ran a large randomized controlled experiment among about 150,000 recipients of unemployment benefits insurance in …

This paper examines the effects of unemployment benefit duration in Finland. To overcome the problem that the maximum … period, potential benefit duration at the beginning of unemployment spells varies across individuals because only those with … we estimate that one extra week of benefits increases expected unemployment duration by 0.15 weeks, which corresponds to …