This paper studies the effect of unemployment benefits on the unemployment and subsequent employment duration using … unemployment and subsequent employment duration for the recipients is statistically significant for the short-term unemployed in … a two-state mixed proportional hazard model allowing for flexible duration dependence and state specific unobserved …

abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … unemployment duration is positive and significant. Neglecting selectivity leads to an underestimation of the effects in absolute … additional active labor market policy measures. The estimated effect of the reform on the survival function of the duration of …

, going through many spells of unemployment and fixed duration jobs, before obtaining a regular job. Looking at French data … substantial reduction in unemployment duration. If anything, their effect on the welfare of young workers appears to have been … on fixed-duration contracts. At the end of a given duration, these contracts can be terminated at little or no cost. If …

We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment … balances in these accounts are available to them during periods of unemployment. The government is able to undertake balanced … model for the high unemployment countries of Europe. Our results suggest that this policy reform would significantly change …

probability is high. -- Treatment ; program participation ; unemployment duration ; training ; propensity score ; matching … duration until treatment and the counterfactual durations until exit. To illustrate the approach, the paper studies the effect … of training for unemployed workers in France, using a rich register data set. Training has little impact on unemployment …

This paper studies the effect of unemployment benefits on the unemployment and subsequent employment duration using … unemployment and subsequent employment duration for the recipients is statistically significant for the short-term unemployed in … a two-state mixed proportional hazard model allowing for flexible duration dependence and state specific unobserved …

Labour. Transitions from unemployment to permanent vs. temporary jobs are assumed to be generated by a dependent competing … risks duration model. Moreover we assume that program entry but also direct transitions from the program to employment are …