sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We …Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … estimate multi-spell duration models with selection on unobserved characteristics. We find that a vacancy referral increases …

spell duration and improved post-unemployment job quality. In contrast to many previous empirical studies that have … addressed the negative benefit effect on duration only, the current paper jointly addresses the causal effect of unemployment … benefits on both unemployment duration and post-unemployment wages. Based on panel data from the Survey of Income and Program …

; 6) time devoted to job search is fairly constant regardless of unemployment duration for those who are ineligible for UI … 50 states and D.C., job search is inversely related to the generosity of unemployment benefits, with an elasticity … of 2.5; 5) job search intensity for those eligible for Unemployment Insurance (UI) increases prior to benefit exhaustion …

extensions across states to estimate the overall impact of these extensions on unemployment duration, comparing the experience … extensions on unemployment transitions and duration. We rely on individual variation in benefit availability based on the … duration of unemployment spells and the length of UI benefits available in the state and month, conditional on state economic …

Previous research suggests that there are substantial interactions between the unemployment insurance (UI) and the … sickness insurance (SI) in Sweden. Moral hazard arises in the interplay between these two social insurance systems, since by … benefits. This paper examines whether these interactions affect the transition rate from unemployment to employment. To study …

The issue of whether unemployment benefits should increase or decrease over the unemployment spell is analyzed in a … productivity of unemployed is constant over the unemployment spell, benefits should typically increase or be constant. The only …

The objective of this paper is to examine the extent to which an individual?s use of unemployment insurance (UI) as a … Sweden. Subsequent participation in the Canadian program is influenced by parental UI history. In Sweden individual learning …

the actual replacement rate contribute to higher unemployment as suggested by theory. We also show that removing the wage …We examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and unemployment using Swedish regional data. To estimate the … effect of an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) on unemployment we exploit the ceiling on UI benefits. The benefit …

the actual replacement rate contribute to higher unemployment as suggested by theory. We also show that removing the wage …We examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and unemployment using Swedish regional data. To estimate the … effect of an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) on unemployment we exploit the ceiling on UI benefits. The benefit …

This paper empirically analyzes the distribution of unemployment durations in West- Germany before and after the … changes during the mid 1980s in the maximum entitlement periods for unemployment benefits for elderly unemployed. The analysis … West Germany. We introduce two proxies for unemployment, since the data do not involve a precise economic definition of …