unemployment entry, optimism decreases job finding by about 8%. This effect weakens over the unemployment spell and eventually … switches sign after about 8 months of unemployment. From then onward, optimism prevents un- employed individuals from becoming … discouraged and thus increases search. On average, optimism increases the duration of unemployment by about 6.5%. …

country has experienced since the Great Depression. The unemployment rate reached as high as 10.1 percent in October 2009 … those in the past by examining worker flows into and out of unemployment taking into account changes in the demographic … results indicate that the increase in the unemployment rate is driven to a larger extent by the lack of hiring (low outflows …

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 …

incentives due to higher net earnings. Additional earnings during unemployment might lead to higher reservation wages prolonging … the duration of unemployment, yet also giving unemployed individuals more time to search for better and more stable jobs … evaluate the impact of marginal employment on unemployment duration and subsequent job quality, we consider a sample of fresh …

effort ; reservation wage ; locus of control ; unemployment duration …

relationship between the network size and reservation wages. -- Job search behavior ; unemployment ; social networks …

This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment …

sanctions ; unemployment transitions ; German labor market reform ; ex-post evaluation ; propensity score matching ; hazard rate …We analyze the effect of imposed benefit sanctions on the unemployment-to-employment transition of unemployed people … entitled to unemployment compensation on the basis of register data from the German Federal Employment Agency. We combine …

We analyse the re-employment probabilities of almost 330,000 Spanish men aged 20-59 years who began a unemployment … insurance (UI) spell between February 1987 and November 1991 using data derived from the national unemployment benefit … exhaustion approaches but, again, the effect is relatively small. (iii) Extensions to Unemployment Assistance eligibility lowered …

labor market and examines the implications of joint household decision-making for cyclical fluctuations in the unemployment …, and find that joint household decision-making contributes to the counter-cyclicality of women’s unemployment rate, but not …