receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …

have higher wage dispersion. We also examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and job search. …

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 …; 6) time devoted to job search is fairly constant regardless of unemployment duration for those who are ineligible for UI …

receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …

receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …

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 …

180 days of unemployment for all spells beginning on July 15, 2012. Using Social Security data and a Differences … unemployment duration by 5.7 weeks (or 14%), implying an elasticity of 0.86. We find strong behavioral effects as the reform … reduced the expected unemployment duration right from the beginning of the unemployment spell. While the reform had no effect …

, whereby special focus is placed on unemployment duration. The results of the study indicate that in contrast to reservation … wages, offered wages decline considerably with duration of unemployment. This is the main reason that ratios of reservation … wages to offered wages increase rapidly with duration of unemployment; on average, reservation wages begin to exceed offered …

over this period, but ultimately explains little of the rise in unemployment. Third, only a small share of the increase in … unemployment can be attributed to the early retirement policies that were implemented in Europe from the 1970s up until the early … aiming to explain the European unemployment problem. …

quantitative effects of (i) aggregate productivity shocks on unemployment and (ii) unemployment benefits on unemployment. This … model, unemployment benefits affect households' behavior directly, without having to run via the bargained wage. A … effect of benefits on unemployment. Our analysis shows the importance of investigating the effects of policies on the …