Young adults entering the labor force typically have little access to unemployment insurance or other formal insurance …

We develop a model of job search and use it to assess the effects that the Brazilian unemployment benefit system has on … exit rates from unemployment. In our setup, unemployed workers receive job offers from the formal and informal sectors and … decide whether to accept them or wait. Only jobs in the formal sector come with unemployment benefits. After incorporating …

did not affect total post-unemployment earnings indicating that the positive effects on job finding and job turnover …

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … relative attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness …

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness absence during …

We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in Missouri affected search behavior of … estimates to simulate the unemployment rate assuming no market-level externalities. The simulated response, which implies almost … a one percentage point decline in the unemployment rate, closely approximates the estimated change in the unemployment …

, whereby special focus is placed on unemployment duration. The results of the study indicate that in contrast to reservation … wages, offered wages decline considerably with duration of unemployment. This is the main reason that ratios of reservation … wages to offered wages increase rapidly with duration of unemployment; on average, reservation wages begin to exceed offered …

rate of job destruction is sufficiently low, the unemployment rates can get close to steady-state values during the … transition. Within the realm of feasible scenarios, unemployment differentials are simultaneously determined by the speed of … destruction is fast and benefits are high. -- transition ; heterogeneous labor ; job creation ; unemployment benefit ; wage …

This paper finds that unemployment insurance sanctions substantially raise individual transition rates from … unemployment to employment. Sanctions are punitive benefits reductions that are supposed to make recipients comply with certain … of individuals who started collecting unemployment insurance in the Netherlands in 1992. We deal with various forms of …

Unemployment insurance (UI) sanctions in the form of benefit reductions are intended to set disincentives for UI …. -- Unemployment insurance sanctions ; dynamic matching …