This paper exploits a substantial reform of the Dutch UI law to study the effect of the entitlement period on job …

treatment, we report that the arrival rate of job offers declines precipitously with jobless duration and age; that reservation … negative duration dependence for reasons that have more to do with the arrival rate of job offers than with reservation wages …

This paper uses a unique Portuguese data set to examine the effect of unemployment benefit receipt and maximum duration …

We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in Missouri affected search behavior of … effect of maximum duration on UI and nonemployment spells of approximately 0.45 and 0.25 respectively. We use the RDD … UI recipients and the aggregate labor market. Using a regression discontinuity design (RDD), we estimate a marginal …

We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment … from a regression kink design that exploits the quasi-experimental variation around the kink in the UI benefit schedule. We … find that UI durations are more responsive to benefit levels during the recession and its aftermath, with an elasticity …

, towards activation policy by tightening their monitoring and sanction regime. With our study, we aim to provide causal …

We analyse the duration of unemployment spells in Poland using data from the Polish Labour Force Survey of August 1994 …. The effects on the duration of unemployment of important socio-economic and demographic characteristics are explored … heterogeneity, we find that the probability of finding a job increases, especially for men, with the duration of unemployment. …