unemployment benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, and discuss implementation issues that may arise in similar … worse. In particular, Monte Carlo simulations based on data generating processes that closely resemble the data from our …

Using data from a social experiment, we estimate the impact of training on the duration of employment and unemployment … unemployment spells lead to biased estimates of the effects of training. We present and implement several econometric approaches … unemployment spells …

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

unemployment exit rate and a small increase in the expected duration of unemployment. The effects on exits and duration are …In response to the Great Recession, the availability of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits was extended to an … individual exit from unemployment, and we compare the estimated impact with that for the prior extension of benefits during the …

We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment …

During the Great Recession, U.S. unemployment benefits were extended by up to 73 weeks. Theory predicts that extensions … benefit duration by 10% increases unemployment by only 0.6% in equilibrium … increase unemployment by discouraging job search, a partial equilibrium effect. Using data from the large job board …

the effects of unemployment benefit extensions on the labor market and attempt to reconcile their apparently disparate … unemployment rates as an exogenous variation. Unfortunately, we find that this approach falls prey to the very problems it aims to …

at combating unemployment and raising labor supply. MIMIC combines modern labor-market theories, a firm empirical …-wide unemployment quality and quantity of labor supply. Cuts in social security contributions paid by employers and subsidies for hiring … long-term unemployed reduce unskilled unemployment most substantially. Tax cuts in the higher tax brackets boost the …

that employer screening plays an important role in generating duration dependence; employers use the unemployment spell …This paper studies the role of employer behavior in generating "negative duration dependence" -- the adverse effect of … a longer unemployment spell -- by sending fictitious resumes to real job postings in 100 U.S. cities. Our results …

is imputed using existing labor supply elasticities, and variations in unemployment insurance laws are used to estimate …