"The empirical literature on unemployment insurance has focused on its direct effect on unemployment duration, while …. This paper provides evidence on the effect of unemployment benefits on unemployment and employment duration in Europe … even if receiving benefits has a direct negative effect increasing the duration of unemployment spells, there is also a …

The empirical literature on unemployment insurance has focused on its direct effect on unemployment duration, while the … evidence on the effect of unemployment benefits on unemployment and employment duration in Europe, using individual data from … benefits has a direct negative effect increasing the duration of unemployment spells, there is also a positive indirect effect …

The existing studies of unemployment benefit and unemployment duration suggest that reforms that lower either the level … or the duration of benefits should reduce unemployment. Despite the large number of such reforms implemented in Europe in … unemployment. This paper also provides an explanation for this fact by exploring the interactions between unemployment benefits and …

This paper exploits the informational value of search theory, after Lancaster and Chesher (1983), in conjunction with … survey data on the unemployed to calculate key reservation wage and duration elasticities for most EU-15 nations. …