unemployment benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, and discuss implementation issues that may arise in similar …

disparate findings in prior studies. While we cannot reconcile earlier findings on the effect of unemployment duration, the …We use a resume audit study to better understand the role of employment and unemployment histories in affecting … age range, we find that applicants with 52 weeks of unemployment have a lower callback rate than do applicants with …

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 …

This paper uses two data sets to examine the impact of the potential duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits … on the duration of unemployment and the time pattern of the escape rate from unemployment in the United States. The first … spikes in the escape rate from unemployment for nonrecipients strongly suggests that the potential duration of UI benefits …

of unemployment spell durations. A job search model that allows for recalls is shown to lead naturally to a competing … nonnegligible recall prospects of an escape rate from unemployment that declines with spell duration is shown to almost entirely … risks specification of the distribution of layoff unemployment spell durations in which recall and the taking of a new job …

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 …

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 …