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 …

) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) – affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made … unemployment insurance more generous by changing, simultaneously, the maximum duration of regular unemployment benefits and the … the maximum duration of benefits. We use these results to split up the total costs to unemployment insurance funds into …

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 …

; 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 …

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 … weeks for elderly individuals in certain regions of Austria. In the evaluation, we explicitly account for the fact that the …

selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …

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 …

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 … the effect that UIC has on the fraction of time spent employed. The estimation procedure simultaneously allows for …

benefits entitlement period. The results point towards a hump-shape response of unemployment duration over the one-year pre-unemployment … extended unemployment benefits. Our empirical exercise explores a quasi-experimental setting generated by an increase in the … interquartile range. This behavior of job searchers is consistent with labor supply models with unemployment insurance and savings …