; 6) time devoted to job search is fairly constant regardless of unemployment duration for those who are ineligible for UI … 50 states and D.C., job search is inversely related to the generosity of unemployment benefits, with an elasticity … of 2.5; 5) job search intensity for those eligible for Unemployment Insurance (UI) increases prior to benefit exhaustion …

extensions across states to estimate the overall impact of these extensions on unemployment duration, comparing the experience … extensions on unemployment transitions and duration. We rely on individual variation in benefit availability based on the … duration of unemployment spells and the length of UI benefits available in the state and month, conditional on state economic …

In this paper, U.S. data on labor market histories of displaced workers are used to quantify the effect of Unemployment … Insurance Compensation (UIC) on both unemployment and employment durations. This results in the first available assessment of … unemployment durations. …

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

This paper studies the effect of unemployment benefits on the unemployment and subsequent employment duration using … unemployment and subsequent employment duration for the recipients is statistically significant for the short-term unemployed in … a two-state mixed proportional hazard model allowing for flexible duration dependence and state specific unobserved …

The relationship between unemployment benefit duration, unemployment duration and subsequent job duration is … be correlated with unemployment duration as well as accepted job duration. I examine two potential explanations for the … is also found to explain the correlation between unemployment and job duration. Various simulations indicate that …

The issue of whether unemployment benefits should increase or decrease over the unemployment spell is analyzed in a … productivity of unemployed is constant over the unemployment spell, benefits should typically increase or be constant. The only …

The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This paper … evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 …

This paper investigates how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects the quality of post-unemployment … the contract (temporary vs. permanent), the duration of the post-unemployment jobs, or the wage earned in this job. … jobs. It takes advantage of a natural experiment introduced by a change in Slovenia's unemployment insurance law that …

We study how changes in the maximum benefit duration affect the inflow into unemployment in the Netherlands. Until … August 2003, workers who became unemployed after age 57.5 were entitled to unemployment benefits until the age of 65, after … which they would receive old age pensions. This characteristic made it attractive for workers to enter unemployment shortly …