Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … relative attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness …

Labor market frictions are not the only possible factor responsible for high unemployment. Credit market imperfections … European and US unemployment differ so much when labor markets have become more similar at the margin in Europe and the US. To …

that a decrease of say unemployment probability or an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) generosity affects saving not …

density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …

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 …

density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …

In November 2005, the Hungarian government frontloaded the unemployment benefit path, while kept constant the total … benefit amount that could be collected over the unemployment spell. We estimate the effect of this reform on non …

The standard approach to the estimation of unemployment persistence assumes that quantile parameter heterogeneity does …