candidate explanation is supply-side effects driven by dramatic expansions of Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefit durations, to … longitudinal structure of the Current Population Survey to construct unemployment exit hazards that vary across states, over time …, and between individuals with differing unemployment durations. I then use these hazards to explore a variety of …

61,000 persons in Spain in 1985 when unemployment exceeded 20%--to examine the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) and … family serves as a form of welfare; (3) hazard rates linking the chances of job finding to duration of unemployment in the … 1981-85 period of massive joblessness did not decline with duration; (4) the length of unemployment spells reduces wages …

In this paper, we review the literature on the quot;spikequot; in unemployment exit rates around benefit exhaustion … unemployment spells are measured has a large effect on the magnitude of the spike at exhaustion, both in existing studies and in … defined by the time spent on the unemployment system. In Austria, the exit rate from registered unemployment rises by over 200 …

sharp discontinuities in eligibility for severance pay and extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits in Austria …

We study how the level of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits that trades off the consumption smoothing benefit with … moral hazard cost is procyclical, greater when the unemployment rate is relatively low. By contrast, our evidence suggests … standard deviation increase in the unemployment rate leads to a roughly 14 to 27 percentage point increase in the welfare …

Reemployment bonus experiments offer large lump sum payments to unemployment insurance (UI) recipients who find a job … Illinois and discusses the implications of the experiments for theories of unemployment and policy design. I examine the hazard … rate of exit from unemployment and find that it is significantly higher for the experimental groups, but only during the …

unemployment spells are less likely to file. We show that if the decision to file for UI is affected by benefit levels and the … expected duration of unemployment, it will bias estimates of the effects of UI on unemployment duration …

We show that the largest increase in unemployment benefits in U.S. history had large spending impacts and small job …

reservation wages, including key policy variables such as unemployment insurance (UI), is scarce. In France, unemployed people …

We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in Missouri affected search behavior of … simulate the unemployment rate assuming no market-level externalities. The simulated response closely approximates the … estimated change in the unemployment rate following the benefit cut, suggesting that even in a period of high unemployment the …