With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate …

Labor market frictions are not the only possible factor responsible for high unemployment. Credit market imperfections … European and US unemployment differ so much when labor markets have become more similar at the margin in Europe and the US. To …

Individual labour market transitions from unemployment into temporary work are often succeeded by a transition from … unemployment to temporary jobs and unobserved determinants of the transition rates. The data contain multiple spells in labour … unemployment and they substantially increase the fraction of unemployed workers who have regular work within a few years after …

negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …

have higher wage dispersion. We also examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and job search. …

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 …; 6) time devoted to job search is fairly constant regardless of unemployment duration for those who are ineligible for UI …

This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment …

found that Internet job search (IJS) was associated with longer unemployment durations in 1998/2000 - using comparable data … from a decade later. We find that IJS now appears to be effective: it reduces individual workers' unemployment durations by …. IJS appears to be most effective in reducing unemployment durations when used to contact friends and relatives, to send …

increase the probability of re-employment following unemployment. …

also a driver of behavior and life's outcomes? Rich survey data of recent entrants into unemployment in Germany show that a …