The job finding rate declines with the duration of unemployment. While this is a well established fact, the reasons are …" duration dependence, while the remaining 45 percent is due to dynamic selection of the unemployment pool. We also discuss …

for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum …-experimental situation from which a lot can be learned about the impact of unemployment insurance rules on the dynamics of employment …, unemployment, and wages. We find that the REBP led to a tremendous increase in unemployment, which was due to both an increase in …