duration differentials when combined with either random or directed search even when strong prejudice is not widespread, but no …We review theories of race discrimination in the labor market. Taste-based models can generate wage and unemployment … existing model explains the unemployment rate differential. Models of statistical discrimination based on differential …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

is imputed using existing labor supply elasticities, and variations in unemployment insurance laws are used to estimate … local curvature in a dynamic job search model. Commitments significantly change preferences over wealth: The local …

calibrated model of job search how these biased beliefs contribute to the slow exit out of unemployment and can explain more than … 10 percent of the incidence of long-term unemployment …This paper analyses job seekers' perceptions and their relationship to unemployment outcomes to study heterogeneity and …

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

This paper presents new evidence on why unemployment insurance (UI) benefits affect search behavior and develops a … unemployment durations caused by UI benefits is due to a quot;liquidity effectquot; rather than distortions in marginal incentives … to search (quot;moral hazardquot;) by combining two empirical strategies. First, I find that increases in benefits have …