We study optimal unemployment insurance (UI) policy over the business cycle, using a heterogeneous agent job …

We empirically investigate how two-tier unemployment compensation schemes affect the profile of re-employment hazards …-employment rates at different durations. For the short-term unemployed, the hazard rate increases and negative duration dependence … declines. For the long-term unemployed, we find none and for certain groups of job seekers even negative impacts on the re …

This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with two destination … unemployment. Although we do not reject the null of proportionality, abandoning the proportionality assumption does not materially …