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 …

Beveridge (full-employment-consistent) rate of unemployment (BECRU), derived from the unemployment-vacancies relationship. The … BECRU is the level of unemployment that minimises the non-productive use of labour. Based on a novel dataset for the period …. The European unemployment problem emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, as Beveridgean full employment gaps increased. In the …

strongly to unemployment duration. At any level of general joblessness, reducing long-term unemployment is more important than … reducing the number of people unemployed at any point in time. -- unemployment ; unemployment duration ; life satisfaction …The social costs of unemployment, in terms of unemployment's impact on European citizens' life satisfaction, relate …

This study examines whether the distribution of aggregate unemployment by duration affects individual well-being. Two … distribution of aggregate unemployment by duration on individual well-being. We find significant evidence in favor of both the … more so the risk of being out of work for 4 to 12 months. -- unemployment ; unemployment duration ; life satisfaction …

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 …

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 …

intervention, monitoring and individualized job search plans that guarantee activation measures for unemployed young persons. Using … having a negligible impact on unemployment in the age range of 23-24. We also show that the positive impacts of the youth …

In this paper we model cartel duration as a mixed proportional hazard model and condition on cartel characteristics …-lived cartels. The state of the economy can impact the duration of a cartel as well. Cartels where the leading firm has a market …