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 …

This paper studies how changes in extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefit affect the duration of unemployment. We … not lead to a decrease in the jobless hazard; the duration of unemployment is not prolonged among jobseekers who have … longer maximum benefit duration. This result is robust to shorter and longer tenure before entering unemployment. The non …

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 … benefit duration on unemployment duration and post-unemployment outcomes. We find a spike in the re-employment hazard for the …

a negative relationship between unemployment duration and the subsequent job duration. Restricting the sample to job … even greater negative effect of unemployment duration on the following job duration. The importance lies not only in the … duration of unemployment. If job seekers keep a high reservation wage and a low search intensity because of the benefits of …

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 …

In this paper, we review the literature on the quot;spikequot; in unemployment exit rates around benefit exhaustion … unemployment spells are measured has a large effect on the magnitude of the spike at exhaustion, both in existing studies and in … defined by the time spent on the unemployment system. In Austria, the exit rate from registered unemployment rises by over 200 …

introduction of a soft constraint appears particularly effective; our results show that the expected unemployment duration falls by …Based on a sequence of reforms in the Norwegian unemployment insurance (UI) system, we show that activity-oriented UI … regimes - i.e., regimes with a high likelihood of required participation in active labor market programs, duration limitations …

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

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 …

' 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 …