unemployment and its duration distribution. Using the SIPP, we document the relation between workers' (gross and net) occupational … mobility and unemployment duration over the long run and business cycle. To interpret this evidence, we develop an analytically … countercyclical net occupational mobility, the large volatility of unemployment and the cyclical properties of the unemployment …

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …

We develop a model of job search and use it to assess the effects that the Brazilian unemployment benefit system has on … exit rates from unemployment. In our setup, unemployed workers receive job offers from the formal and informal sectors and … decide whether to accept them or wait. Only jobs in the formal sector come with unemployment benefits. After incorporating …

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 …

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 …

additionally provided monthly application decreases the length of spells by 4%. In line with theory, we further find that the …

probability of leaving unemployment? The experiment indicates that a relatively large fraction (one third) of the referrals do not …, especially among young people. However, we find no significant impact on the duration of unemployment …

180 days of unemployment for all spells beginning on July 15, 2012. Using Social Security data and a Differences … 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 …