revisions to decompose the variation in the duration of benefits into the part coming from actual differences in economic … outcomes. We use our estimates to quantify the effects of the increase in the duration of benefits during the Great Recession …

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 … endogenous assignment variable (like previous earnings). We provide new results on identification and estimation for these …

comprehensive administrative data to quantify the efficiency cost of increases in potential UI duration in Brazil. We find evidence …

duration of the first unemployment spell. In this paper, we make two contributions. First, we use a regression discontinuity …

large reforms of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit levels in Austria. We document that wages are insensitive to UI benefit … sensitivities larger than $0.03. The insensitivity holds even among workers with low wages and high predicted unemployment duration …