Kyyrä, Tomi; Pesola, Hanna; Verho, Jouko - 2017
Many studies have found that the exit rate from unemployment increases in the vicinity of the exhaustion day of … unemployment insurance benefits. The extent to which this "spike" is driven by job search behavior is important for assessing the … distortionary effect of unemployment insurance. Card, Chetty and Weber (American Economic Review 2007; 97: 113-118) find a large …