This paper studies a program that extends the maximum duration of unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to 209 weeks … regions to identify the effect of extended benefits on unemployment duration. Results indicate that the duration of job search … is prolonged by at least .09 weeks per additional week of benefits among men, whereas unemployment duration increases by …

strongly to unemployment duration. At any level of general joblessness, reducing long-term unemployment is more important than … reducing the number of people unemployed at any point in time. -- unemployment ; unemployment duration ; life satisfaction …The social costs of unemployment, in terms of unemployment's impact on European citizens' life satisfaction, relate …

This paper examines the effects of the distribution of unemployment by duration on the level of unemployment. It … characterize the joint behavior of unemploy- ment and the distribution of unemployment by duration. In the theoretical part of the … depends on the distribution of unemployment by duration. In the empirical section we estimate a panel data model for 16 OECD …