Previous research suggests that there are substantial interactions between the unemployment insurance (UI) and the … benefits. This paper examines whether these interactions affect the transition rate from unemployment to employment. To study …

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 …

benefits entitlement period. The results point towards a hump-shape response of unemployment duration over the one-year pre-unemployment … extended unemployment benefits. Our empirical exercise explores a quasi-experimental setting generated by an increase in the … interquartile range. This behavior of job searchers is consistent with labor supply models with unemployment insurance and savings …

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 …

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 …

We identify the causal effect of lump-sum severance payments on non-employment duration in Norway by exploiting a …

We identify the causal effect of lump-sum severance payments on non-employment duration in Norway by exploiting a …

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 …

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 …

This paper studies the effect of unemployment benefits on the unemployment and subsequent employment duration using … unemployment and subsequent employment duration for the recipients is statistically significant for the short-term unemployed in … a two-state mixed proportional hazard model allowing for flexible duration dependence and state specific unobserved …