This paper examines whether or not a prolonged unemployment period can raise the quality of job matching after … unemployment. We focus on job tenure as an indicator of a good quality job match after unemployment. We match two sets of Japanese … seekers receiving unemployment insurance, and the other includes information about job seekers applying for jobs.We first show …

extended unemployment benefits. Our empirical exercise explores a quasi-experimental setting generated by an increase in the … benefits entitlement period. The results point towards a hump-shape response of unemployment duration over the one-year pre-unemployment … interquartile range. This behavior of job searchers is consistent with labor supply models with unemployment insurance and savings …

This paper studies how changes in extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefit affect the duration of unemployment. We … range of 44-46 who entered unemployment in the same month in the same year, we find that longer maximum benefit durations do … not lead to a decrease in the jobless hazard; the duration of unemployment is not prolonged among jobseekers who have …