becoming unemployed, the duration of unemployment, or income. However, the results indicate that the program has a positive …

The well-known positive relationship between the unemployment benefit level and unemployment duration can be separated … difficult to separate empirically, but the social optimality of an unemployment insurance policy can be evaluated by studying … the effect of a non-distortionary lump-sum severance grant on unemployment durations. In this study, I evaluate the …

Previous studies estimating the effect of generosity of unemployment insurance (UI) on unemployment duration has found … that as job seekers approach benefit exhaustion the probability of leaving unemployment increases sharply. Such "spikes" in …. This paper revisits this debate by studying a 30 week UI benefit extension in Sweden and its effects on unemployment …

experience. Cognitive ability and personal experience of unemployment are not related to caseworker performance. Based on the …

unemployment and cause workers to leave the labor force, conceivably by affecting the local labor market. …