introduction of a soft constraint appears particularly effective; our results show that the expected unemployment duration falls by …Based on a sequence of reforms in the Norwegian unemployment insurance (UI) system, we show that activity-oriented UI … regimes - i.e., regimes with a high likelihood of required participation in active labor market programs, duration limitations …

sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We …Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … estimate multi-spell duration models with selection on unobserved characteristics. We find that a vacancy referral increases …

In this paper, we investigate the effect of benefit generosity on claim duration and temporary benefits paid among …-percent increase in benefit generosity leads to a 2- to 4-percent increase in injury duration. We derive similar duration …

multivariate duration models. …