This paper examines unemployment duration and the incidence of claims following a 36 percent increase in the maximum … duration to be convincingly separated from effects on incidence. The results show a sharp fall in the hazard of leaving UI that … incidence of claims and with this change in incidence biasing duration estimates. The evidence further suggests that, at least …

This paper uses two data sets to examine the impact of the potential duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits … on the duration of unemployment and the time pattern of the escape rate from unemployment in the United States. The first … spikes in the escape rate from unemployment for nonrecipients strongly suggests that the potential duration of UI benefits …