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 …

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 …

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 …

effects of UI benefit duration in the form of across-border work patterns that are consistent with increased tightness in high …

We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment …

of unemployment insurance benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, where the benefit schedule has kinks at the …We consider nonparametric identification and estimation in a nonseparable model where a continuous regressor of … institutional settings where a policy variable (such as weekly unemployment benefits) is determined by an observed but potentially …

Unemployment Insurance benefit durations were extended during the Great Recession, reaching 99 weeks for most …-2014, we estimate the effect of extended benefits on unemployment exits separately during the earlier period of benefit …

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 …

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 …