Unemployment benefits, benefit duration, base period and qualifying period are constituent parameters of the … unemployment insurance system in most OECD countries. From economic research we know that the amount and duration of unemployment … benefits increase unemployment. To analyze the effects of the other two parameters we use a matching model with search …

Over the past several decades, the rate at which regular unemployment insurance recipients run out of benefits before … recipients exhausted their benefits; in 2007 (with a similar unemployment rate) 35.6 percent exhausted. This paper documents the … increase in the exhaustion rate, along with the parallel rise in long-term unemployment; examines the consequences; and reviews …

Using a random sample of U.S. unemployment insurance (UI) applicants from 2002-09, we find that unemployment duration …, suggesting job search is a nonstationary process characterized by declining welfare even in the very early stages of unemployment … cause than for those who voluntarily quit. These differential effects suggest that unemployment may exacerbate the earnings …

service, unemployment insurance, work experience, and direct job creation. Assistance for workers displaced by foreign … of unemployment compensation recipients to reemployment services, skill training closely connected to employer … ; reemployment ; unemployment insurance ; employment service ; public employment policy ; job training ; wage subsidies ; direct job …

In response to the 2007 - 09 "Great Recession," the maximum duration of U.S. unemployment benefits was increased from … microdata from the Current Population Survey. I find that a 10-week extension of UI benefits raises unemployment duration by …

In response to the 2007-09 "Great Recession," the maximum duration of U.S. unemployment benefits was increased from the … microdata from the Current Population Survey. I find that a 10-week extension of UI benefits raises unemployment duration by …

disparity in the United States and continuing high unemployment in Europe. She suggests that since the transformations will …

rating in the U.S. Unemployment Insurance system, the reserve ratio and the benefit ratio methods. Differences in layoff …

Recent efforts to expand unemployment insurance (UI) eligibility are expected to increase low-earning workers' access …