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 …

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 … search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante threat of sanctions. We analyze the effects of vacancy referrals and …

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 …

We estimate the effect of a shortening of unemployment benefit entitlements on unemployment duration. Previous studies … on the same or related problems have not taken into account that the competing risks duration model is not identified and … suggest an assumption on the dependence structure between risks which is milder than what conventional duration models assume …

the duration of unemployment, yet also giving unemployed individuals more time to search for better and more stable jobs … evaluate the impact of marginal employment on unemployment duration and subsequent job quality, we consider a sample of fresh …In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income during job search by taking up …

There is little evidence on unemployment duration and its determinants in developing countries. This study is on the … duration aspect of unemployment in a developing country, Turkey. We analyze the determinants of the probability of leaving … unemployment for employment or the hazard rate. The effects of the personal and household characteristics and the local labor …

find that for beneficiaries using the SF, the pattern of job finding rates over the duration of unemployment is consistent …This study examines the determinants of job-finding rates of unemployment benefit recipients under the Chilean program … the form of unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) - so as to mitigate the moral hazard problem of traditional …

entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite …The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed … individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit generosity, either in terms of benefit duration or …

both unemployment and employment duration. Our analysis uses a rich administrative longitudinal data set for Germany where … unemployment. Long-term training schemes increase the average duration of employment spells more strongly than short-term training …. However, they increase the expected unemployment duration if they are started early during unemployment. This negative short …

This paper examines the impact of housing tenure choice on unemployment duration in Belgium using EU‐SILC micro data … simultaneously estimate unemployment duration by a mixed proportional hazard model, and the probability of being an outright … the causal influence of different types of housing tenure on unemployment duration, we use instrumental variables. Our …