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 …

We use a resume audit study to better understand the role of employment and unemployment histories in affecting … disparate findings in prior studies. While we cannot reconcile earlier findings on the effect of unemployment duration, the … findings solidify an emerging consensus on the role of age and employment on callback. First, among applicants across a broad …

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 …

We develop a model of self-sustaining discrimination in wages, coupled with higher unemployment and shorter employment … duration among blacks. While white workers are hired and retained indefinitely without monitoring, black workers are monitored …

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 …

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 …

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 measure the aggregate effect of unemployment benefit duration on employment and the labor force. We exploit the … benefit duration leads to a statistically significant increase of employment by 0.019 log points. In levels, 2.1 million … individuals secured employment in 2014 due to the benefit cut. More than 1.1 million of these workers would not have participated …

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 …

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 …