Can the potential availability of unemployment insurance (UI) affect the behavior of employed workers and the duration … duration by around 0.3%. Such result is driven by the fact that higher UI decreases the probability of job quits, which are not … simple model to assess the economic relevance of this finding. It shows that the positive effect on employment duration …

Can unemployment insurance (UI) affect the behavior of employed workers and the duration of their employment spells? I … schedule, I find that a 1% higher potential benefit level increases job duration by around 0.35%. This result is driven by the … simple model showing that the positive effect on employment duration implies that the optimal benefit is higher than …

We develop a nonparametric instrumental variable approach for the estimation of average treatment effects on hazard … abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … additional active labor market policy measures. The estimated effect of the reform on the survival function of the duration of …

We develop a nonparametric instrumental variable approach for the estimation of average treatment effects on hazard … abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … additional active labor market policy measures. The estimated effect of the reform on the survival function of the duration of …

benefits. Using a competing risk duration model, this paper measures the size of the entitlement effect across two labor …