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 …

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 …

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 …

individuals, making sure that any unemployment spell that individual may undergo precedes the occurrence of a disease, and relies … on mass-layoffs to provide an additional layer of exogeneity to unemployment. Second, it is one of the first papers using …. And third, it treats the health effects of unemployment as part of a dose-response relationship, with the share of time …