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 …

unemployment duration by 5.7 weeks (or 14%), implying an elasticity of 0.86. We find strong behavioral effects as the reform … reduced the expected unemployment duration right from the beginning of the unemployment spell. While the reform had no effect … 180 days of unemployment for all spells beginning on July 15, 2012. Using Social Security data and a Differences …

sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We …Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … estimate multi-spell duration models with selection on unobserved characteristics.We find that a vacancy referral increases the …

unemployment insurance on unemployment duration in Brazil, where we find strong evidence of manipulation at eligibility cutoffs …

In Portugal duration of benefits is exclusively age determined while replacement rates are to all intents and purposes … uniform. We exploit differences in potential maximum duration of benefits for nearly matched pairs of individuals who differ … in age by one year and in potential maximum duration of benefits by three months. In specifications that take account of …

I investigate in this paper partial equilibrium labor supply responses to unemployment insurance (UI) in the US. I use … administrative data on the universe of unemployment spells in five states from the late 1970s to 1984, and non …-parametrically identify the effect of both benefit level and potential duration in the regression kink (RK) design using kinks in the schedule …

individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit generosity, either in terms of benefit duration or … 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 …

little effect on aggregate unemployment duration. Additionally we show that the link between claiming and job search efforts … has important implications when measuring how UI parameters impact unemployment duration …A large fraction of the eligible unemployed workers does not claim for unemployment insurance (UI) and, among claimants …

-treatment effect, both of which vary across individuals. The resulting net effect on the expected unemployment duration is positive for …We consider the consequences of working part-time on supplementary unemployment insurance benefits in the Danish labour … out of unemployment insurance benefit receipt. We find evidence of a negative lock-in effect and a positive post …

This paper explores the effects of a major reform of unemployment benefits in Germany on the labor market outcomes of … individuals with some health impairment. The reform induced a substantial reduction in the potential duration of regular … unemployment benefits for older workers. This work analyzes the reform in a wider framework of institutional interactions, which …