involves conditioning elapsed duration on completed unemployment duration in the reservation wage equation. Our analysis … duration coefficient suggests that higher reservation wages negatively influence the probability of exiting unemployment …. -- reservation wages ; unemployment duration ; control function …

involves conditioning elapsed duration on completed unemployment duration in the reservation wage equation. Our analysis … duration coefficient suggests that higher reservation wages negatively influence the probability of exiting unemployment …

This paper examines the effects of unemployment insurance on escape rates from unemployment using data from the 1998 … Displaced Worker Survey. Transitions from unemployment to employment are modeled using a flexible representation of the baseline … hazard function and allowing for discrete changes through time in the effects of unemployment insurance benefits, as well as …

This paper uses a unique Portuguese data set to examine the effect of unemployment benefit receipt and maximum duration … of benefits on escape rates from unemployment. The focus is on the time profile of transitions out of unemployment. The … disincentive effects of the unemployment benefit system is reported. This result obtains both in general and for the various …

In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on …-varying labor market institutions. While the positive effect of severance pay on unemployment garners some support, there is no real …

This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with two destination … unemployment. Although we do not reject the null of proportionality, abandoning the proportionality assumption does not materially …

Using Portuguese data, this paper investigates the effects of job search methods on escape rates from unemployment and …

. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again consistent with the basic search model …

. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again consistent with the basic search model …