unemployment. Labor market regulations, unemployment benefits, and high levels of public consumption in many European countries …

offers, the determinants of reservation wages, transitions out of unemployment, and accepted wages. In this exploratory … treatment, we report that the arrival rate of job offers declines precipitously with jobless duration and age; that reservation … wages do decline with the jobless spell (and aggregate unemployment); that transitions out of unemployment exhibit strong …

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 …

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 …

involves conditioning elapsed duration on completed unemployment duration in the reservation wage equation. Our analysis … duration coefficient suggests that higher reservation wages negatively influence the probability of exiting unemployment …. -- reservation wages ; unemployment duration ; control function …

involves conditioning elapsed duration on completed unemployment duration in the reservation wage equation. Our analysis … duration coefficient suggests that higher reservation wages negatively influence the probability of exiting unemployment … confirms that the use of elapsed duration alone compounds two separate and opposing influences. Only with the inclusion of …

associated with longer reemployment duration at the individual level. Furthermore, countries with more generous unemployment … employment stability ; job match quality ; reemployment duration ; active labour market policy ; unemployment benefits …This paper analyses the effect of unemployment insurance generosity and active labour market policy on reemployment …

. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again consistent with the basic search model …

model; specifically, reservation wage and transition/duration elasticities. The informational requirements of this approach … impact of unemployment benefit rules and measures increasing the arrival rate of job offers are concerned. These key …

, generous unemployment insurance and active labor market programmes. It analyzes in which conditions flexicurity can be optimal …, with firms more likely to survive and thus not exposing much their workers to unemployment risk. Activation programmes … support the reallocation flow from unproductive to productive firms, helping to reduce unemployment. Low employment protection …