change in SWB predicts job search and unemployment duration. The findings suggest that those who report feeling hurt by … unemployment have shorter unemployment durations. Men who report a loss of SWB are also more likely to look for a job, but women …: search effort and unemployment duration are affected by the utility differential between having a job and being unemployed. …

unemployment benefits. We use the 1999 unemployment insurance reform of Portugal, a quasi-natural experiment. The reform increased … the maximum duration of benefits for three groups of agents and maintained all features of the unemployment insurance for … successfully predicts the effects on the unemployment rate, the labor force participation, and the levels of unemployment and …

We analyze the effect of automation and offshorability on unemployment duration and postunemployment outcomes such as … wages and employment stability. Our rich administrative data allow us to evaluate the importance of providing unemployment …

Previous studies estimating the effect of generosity of unemployment insurance (UI) on unemployment duration has found … that as job seekers approach benefit exhaustion the probability of leaving unemployment increases sharply. Such "spikes" in …. This paper revisits this debate by studying a 30 week UI benefit extension in Sweden and its effects on unemployment …

To evaluate search effort monitoring of unemployed workers, it is important to take account of post-unemployment wages … of monitoring is randomized. They include registers of post-unemployment outcomes like wages and job mobility, and survey … data on measures of search behavior. As such we are the first to study monitoring effects on post-unemployment outcomes …