unemployment benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, and discuss implementation issues that may arise in similar … nonparametric estimation (e.g. Imbens et al. (2012) and Calonico et al. (2014)) are sometimes interpreted by practitioners as … pointing to a default estimation procedure, we show that in any given application different procedures may perform better or …

equivalent workers fall sharply as unemployment duration progresses. We use the model to quantitatively assess the consequences … of such employer behavior for job finding rates and long term unemployment and find only modest effects given the large … decline in callbacks. Interviews lost to duration impact individual job-finding rates solely if they would have led to jobs …

By how much does an extension of unemployment benefits affect macroeconomic outcomes such as unemployment? Answering … this question is challenging because U.S. law extends benefits for states experiencing high unemployment. We use data … revisions to decompose the variation in the duration of benefits into the part coming from actual differences in economic …

The underlying data from which the U.S. unemployment rate, labor-force participation rate, and duration of unemployment … duration of unemployment substantially overstates the true duration of uninterrupted spells of unemployment and misrepresents … reconciliation. We find that the usual statistics understate the unemployment rate and the labor-force participation rate by about …

standard job search theory, the paper derives and tests conditions on reemployment wages under which Unemployment Insurance (UI …) extensions can be used as instrumental variables (IV) for unemployment duration. Using a regression discontinuity design, the … substantial negative effects of unemployment duration on wages of 0.8% per month …

model that allows for duration dependence in the exit rate from unemployment and for transitions between employment (E …We explore the extent to which composition, duration dependence, and labor force non-participation can account for the … sharp increase in the incidence of long-term unemployment (LTU) during the Great Recession. We first show that compositional …

unemployment insurance benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, where the benefit schedule has kinks at the minimum and …We consider nonparametric identification and estimation in a nonseparable model where a continuous regressor of … institutional settings where a policy variable (such as weekly unemployment benefits) is determined by an observed but potentially …

number of unemployment spells versus an increase in their duration. After broadly reviewing the previous literature, we …One of the strongest trends in recent macroeconomic modeling of labor market fluctuations is to treat unemployment … of Unemployment,quot; i.e., the extent to which increased unemployment during a recession arises from an increase in the …

accessibility to appropriate jobs should shorten the duration of unemployment. We focus on lower-income workers with strong labor …This paper presents a new approach to the measurement of the effects of spatial mismatch that takes advantage of … that better job accessibility significantly decreases the duration of joblessness among lower-paid displaced workers …

This paper accounts for the observed increase in unemployment duration relative to the unemployment rate in the U … remaining increase in unemployment duration relative to the unemployment rate is concentrated among women, whose unemployment … rate has fallen sharply in the last two decades while their unemployment duration has increased. Using labor market …