approach that exploits regional variation in unemployment and compares babies born to the same parents so as to deal with … unemployment rate during pregnancy reduces the probability of having a birth weight less than 1,500 grams or of dying within 28 …

Many studies have found that the exit rate from unemployment increases in the vicinity of the exhaustion day of … unemployment insurance benefits. The extent to which this "spike" is driven by job search behavior is important for assessing the … distortionary effect of unemployment insurance. Card, Chetty and Weber (American Economic Review 2007; 97: 113-118) find a large …

This paper examines the effects of unemployment benefit duration in Finland. To overcome the problem that the maximum … period, potential benefit duration at the beginning of unemployment spells varies across individuals because only those with … we estimate that one extra week of benefits increases expected unemployment duration by 0.15 weeks, which corresponds to …

. Also the re-employment probability and post-unemployment wage are negatively affected. The results for the duration of the …This paper analyzes the effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits on unemployment exits and subsequent labor … lengthen nonemployment spells and decrease time spent in part-time unemployment, and thus result in more full-time unemployment …

The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This paper … evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 …

Approximately 10 percent of Unemployment Insurance (UI) claimants in the United States are denied benefits after being …

benefit duration (PBD) within the German UI system, we find that longer PBD leads to longer actual unemployment duration for … for those individuals becoming re-employed. With increasing unemployment benefit duration, the founders’ outcomes in terms … unemployment, most research has focused on analyzing the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) policies on reemployment outcomes …

This paper studies how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects individuals’ job search behavior and re …-employment outcomes. We exploit an unexpected reform of the German unemployment insurance scheme in 2008, which increased the potential … benefit duration from 12 to 15 months for recipients of age 50 to 54. Based on detailed survey data and difference …