We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment …

institutional settings where a policy variable (such as weekly unemployment benefits) is determined by an observed but potentially … unemployment insurance benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, where the benefit schedule has kinks at the minimum and …

institutional settings where a policy variable (such as weekly unemployment benefits) is determined by an observed but potentially … of unemployment insurance benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, where the benefit schedule has kinks at the …

institutional settings where a policy variable (such as weekly unemployment benefits) is determined by an observed but potentially … of unemployment insurance benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, where the benefit schedule has kinks at the …

"In this paper, we review the literature on the "spike" in unemployment exit rates around benefit exhaustion, and … unemployment spells are measured has a large effect on the magnitude of the spike at exhaustion, both in existing studies and in … defined by the time spent on the unemployment system. In Austria, the exit rate from registered unemployment rises by over 200 …