Social surveys are often used to estimate unemployment duration distributions. Survey non-response may then cause a … of the same workers. The latter provide information on durations of unemployment and personal characteristics of all … results based on only survey data: selectivity due to related unobserved determinants of durations of unemployment and non …

Many empirical studies have confirmed the theoretical prediction that longer-term Unemployment Insurance (UI …) entitlement leads to longer unemployment duration. Most of those studies have examined special programs that provide extra weeks … of unemployment benefits when unemployment rates in the region are higher. Hence, they must distinguish if the longer …

This paper explains why people’s subjective well-being (SWB) fails to adapt to unemployment, even though people adapt … to various life events. Although the unemployed downgrade their living standard when they enter into unemployment, their …

Unemployment insurance provides temporary cash benefits to eligible unemployed workers. Benefits are sometimes extended … offers throughout their spell of unemployment. The welfare consequences of misperceiving the probability and length of an …