certain state (e.g. unemployment) to be eligible for a treatment, treatments may commence at different points in time, and the … certain time in unemployment will leave unemployment before training while others will be trained later. We are interested in …

approach provides accurate effect estimates, especially if time-varying variation in the unemployment rate of the local labor …

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante threat of sanctions. Based on a large inflow sample into unemployment … unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We estimate multispell …

To evaluate search effort monitoring of unemployed workers, it is important to take account of post-unemployment wages … of monitoring is randomized. They include registers of post-unemployment outcomes like wages and job mobility, and survey … data on measures of search behavior. As such we are the first to study monitoring effects on post-unemployment outcomes …

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 …

approach that exploits regional variation in unemployment and compares babies born to the same parents so as to deal with … unemployment rate during pregnancy reduces the probability of having a birth weight less than 1,500 grams or of dying within 28 …

unemployment to employment using detailed Danish event history data obtained from administrative registers. We find large positive …

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 …