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 …

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

at reducing the number of claims and targeting benefits more closely to those with the greatest health need. At the same … time the UK labour market has also evolved and in particular now has an historically low level of unemployment, accompanied … framework to explore the relative importance of health status, benefit generosity and local labour market conditions for …

defined by the time spent on the unemployment system. In Austria, the exit rate from registered unemployment rises by over 200 …In this paper, we review the literature on the quot;spikequot; in unemployment exit rates around benefit exhaustion …, and present new evidence based on administrative data for a large sample of job losers in Austria. We find that the way …

program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non … unemployment duration and probability of long term unemployment decrease. These effects are the largest when the program intensity …

problem of negative health selection into early retirement, we exploit a policy change in unemployment insurance rules in … Austria that allowed workers in eligible regions to exit the labor force 3 years earlier compared to workers in non … induced eligible workers to exit the labor force significantly earlier. Instrumental variable estimation results show that for …

Contrary to standard search model predictions, prior studies failed to estimate a positive effect of unemployment … unemployment. This implies a negative relationship between the UI unemployment duration and wage effects, which holds empirically …

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 …

We estimate the effect of a shortening of unemployment benefit entitlements on unemployment duration. Previous studies … effect. We find evidence that the unemployed with higher pre-unemployment earnings are more likely to enter full …

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness absence during …