In this paper we study the effects of unemployment benefit duration and the business cycle on unemployment duration. We … construct durations for individuals entering unemployment from a longitudinal sample of Spanish men in 1987-1994. Estimated … discrete hazard models indicate that receipt of unemployment benefits significantly reduces the hazard of leaving unemployment …

unemployment, most research has focused on analyzing the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) policies on reemployment outcomes … benefit duration (PBD) within the German UI system, we find that longer PBD leads to longer actual unemployment duration for … for those individuals becoming re-employed. With increasing unemployment benefit duration, the founders’ outcomes in terms …

unemployment, most research has focused on analyzing the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) policies on re-employment outcomes … benefit duration (PBD) within the German UI system, we find that longer PBD leads to longer actual unemployment duration for … for those individuals becoming re-employed. With increasing unemployment benefit duration, the founders’ outcomes in terms …

Business creation is economically important, and unemployment precedes the creation of a substantial share of new firms …. Yet, most research has focused on analyzing the effects of unemployment insurance policies on re-employment outcomes …, ignoring self-employment. In this paper, we analyze how the potential duration of unemployment benefits, a fundamental design …

We show in a union-bargaining model that a decrease in the unemployment benefit level increases not only equilibrium …-term wage contracts lead to highter expected real wages and hence higher expected unemployment than short-term contracts …

We show in a union-bargaining model that a decrease in the unemployment benefit level increases not only equilibrium …-term wage contracts lead to higher expected real wages and, hence, higher expected unemployment than short-term contracts …

limiting the contraction in job creation and employment as well as the rise in aggregate unemployment during recessions …We study how the countercyclicality of temporary layoffs affects aggregate unemployment fluctuations, firm entry and … exit dynamics, and macroeconomic fluctuations by building a tractable framework with equilibrium unemployment and …

individual unemployment benefit spell durations. We compare a period of expansion (2005-2007) and the recent recession (2009 … jobs in the expansion period until the time of unemployment benefit expires. Individuals who are most affected by the … financial crisis tend to be males, those aged 16-24 and 40-51 years, those living in regions with higher unemployment rates …

The last three recessions in the United States were followed by jobless recoveries: while labor productivity recovered …, unemployment remained high. In this paper, we show that countercyclical unemployment benefit extensions lead to jobless recoveries …. We augment the standard Mortensen-Pissarides model to incorporate unemployment benefits expiration and state …