unemployment benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, and discuss implementation issues that may arise in similar … nonparametric estimation (e.g. Imbens et al. (2012) and Calonico et al. (2014)) are sometimes interpreted by practitioners as … pointing to a default estimation procedure, we show that in any given application different procedures may perform better or …

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

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 …

unemployment insurance on (formal) reemployment in Brazil, and show that our bounds remain informative, despite the fact that …

defined by the time spent on the unemployment system. In Austria, the exit rate from registered unemployment rises by over 200 …In this paper, we review the literature on the "spike" in unemployment exit rates around benefit exhaustion, and … present new evidence based on administrative data for a large sample of job losers in Austria. We find that the way …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

studied in countries with low informality - increases in unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. We introduce informal work … comprehensive administrative data to quantify the efficiency cost of increases in potential UI duration in Brazil. We find evidence …