"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 …

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 …

This paper examines the effects of unemployment insurance on escape rates from unemployment using data from the 1998 … Displaced Worker Survey. Transitions from unemployment to employment are modeled using a flexible representation of the baseline … hazard function and allowing for discrete changes through time in the effects of unemployment insurance benefits, as well as …

outcomes tend to be more favourable to unions when the national unemployment rate is lower. -- Strikes ; cyclicality ; duration …