; 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 …

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 …

In this paper, U.S. data on labor market histories of displaced workers are used to quantify the effect of Unemployment … Insurance Compensation (UIC) on both unemployment and employment durations. This results in the first available assessment of … unemployment durations. …

We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the effects of unemployment insurance policies on … unemployment. Our estimates imply that most of the persistent increase in unemployment during the Great Recession can be accounted … for by the unprecedented extensions of unemployment benefit eligibility. In contrast to the existing recent literature …

larger earnings fluctuations than employees and that they frequently transition into unemployment. Given the self …-employed are not eligible to unemployment insurance, I analyze the provision of benefits targeted at these risks using a calibrated …. This exercise suggests that extending the current US unemployment insurance scheme to the self-employed comes with a clear …

unemployment duration and probability of long term unemployment decrease. These effects are the largest when the program intensity … program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non …

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 …

We compare information on the length of unemployment spells contained in the IAB employment subsample (IABS) and in the … German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Due to the lack of information on registered unemployment in the IABS, we use two … proxies of unemployment in the IABS as introduced by Fitzenberger/Wilke (2004). The first proxy comprises all periods of …