The introduction of unemployment insurance savings accounts UISA in Chile in October 2002 brought in more comprehensive … unemployment protection while decreasing the opportunity costs of job change. Being the first to empirically investigate the effect … of UISA on employment duration, this paper examines i whether the introduction of UISA affected employment duration among …

rate changes. An on-the-job search model with crime is used to model criminal behavior, derive the estimation method and … average unemployment spell of criminals by two months reduces crime and recidivism by more than five percent. …

and by the need to reallocate workers across productive activities. The duration of unemployment and jobs and wage …This paper surveys recent work in equilibrium models of labor markets characterized by search and recruitment frictions … policies on wages and unemployment. …

The Beveridge curve depicts a negative relationship between unemployed workers and job vacancies, a robust finding … underlying theory is the search and matching model, with workers and firms engaging in costly search leading to random matching …. The Beveridge curve depicts the steady state of the model, whereby inflows into unemployment are equal to the outflows …

Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search …-2004. We estimate duration models dealing with selection on unobservables. We use weighted exogenous sampling maximum … job search model with monitoring of job offer rejection vis-a-vis monitoring of job search effort. The observation window …

Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search …–2004. We estimate duration models dealing with selection on unobservables. We use weighted exogenous sampling maximum … theoretical job search model with monitoring of job offer rejection versus monitoring of job search effort. The observation window …

We investigate why we observe non-negative duration dependence among young unemployed men in urban Ethiopia. Assuming … that genuine duration dependence is negative, there are five explanations for a non-decreasing hazard: the presence of … unemployment benefits, the existence of Active Labour Market Policies, the change in labour demand, segmentation of the labour …

We investigate why we observe non-negative duration dependence among young unemployed men in urban Ethiopia. Assuming … that genuine duration dependence is negative, there are five explanations for a non-decreasing hazard: the presence of … unemployment benefits, the existence of Active Labour Market Policies, the change in labour demand, segmentation of the labour …

This paper uses data from a natural experiment to investigate the potential incentive effect of a fixed unemployment … last group was affected by a rule change that in practice extended the length of unemployment benefits to more than 3 years. …