This paper studies the effect of unemployment benefits on the unemployment and subsequent employment duration using … unemployment and subsequent employment duration for the recipients is statistically significant for the short-term unemployed in … a two-state mixed proportional hazard model allowing for flexible duration dependence and state specific unobserved …

This paper examines the effects of unemployment insurance on escape rates from unemployment using data from the 1998 … Displaced Worker Survey. Transitions from unemployment to employment are modeled using a flexible representation of the baseline … hazard function and allowing for discrete changes through time in the effects of unemployment insurance benefits, as well as …

Social comparisons are important in the employment sphere. A "culture of unemployment" may evolve and prevail because … group. We advance the idea that by making the receipt of unemployment benefits conditional on engagement in an incentive …

. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again consistent with the basic search model …

. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again consistent with the basic search model …

This paper investigates long-term returns from unemployment compensation, exploiting variation from the UK JSA reform … post-unemployment wages. I test these ideas on longitudinal data from Social Security records (LLMDB). Using a difference … in differences approach, I find that individuals who start an unemployment spell soon after JSA introduction, as opposed …

model; specifically, reservation wage and transition/duration elasticities. The informational requirements of this approach … impact of unemployment benefit rules and measures increasing the arrival rate of job offers are concerned. These key …

keine Arbeitslosenversicherung im herkömmlichen Sinne: Die Einkommenssicherung bei Arbeitslosigkeit erfolgt durch die …Im Rahmen eines Vergleichs der amerikanischen und britischen Systeme der Arbeitslosenversicherung wird gezeigt, daß das … Arbeitslosenversicherung und der Höhe der Freisetzung von Arbeitskräften aufweist ("experience rating"). Im Vereinigten Königreich gibt es …