offset the expected perverse effect of benefits on reservation wages and search effort. Similarly, given that liquidity …

The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This paper … evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 …

) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) – affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made … unemployment insurance more generous by changing, simultaneously, the maximum duration of regular unemployment benefits and the … the maximum duration of benefits. We use these results to split up the total costs to unemployment insurance funds into …

This paper studies a program that extends the maximum duration of unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to 209 weeks … regions to identify the effect of extended benefits on unemployment duration. Results indicate that the duration of job search … is prolonged by at least .09 weeks per additional week of benefits among men, whereas unemployment duration increases by …

This paper studies the effect of unemployment benefits on the unemployment and subsequent employment duration using … France and Germany. The results indicate that in these two countries, which provide more generous benefits relative to the UK …

unemployment insurance programs. Our study is the first one to empirically investigate whether UISAs improve work incentives. We … from unemployment, suggesting that such individuals internalize the costs of unemployment benefits. Our results provide … strong support to the idea that UISAs can improve work incentives. …

reporting sick an unemployed person can postpone the UI expiration date and sometimes also receive considerably higher benefits … question I utilize a reform which greatly reduced the incentives for unemployed persons to transfer to the SI. While there is …