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 …

accessibility to appropriate jobs should shorten the duration of unemployment. We focus on lower-income workers with strong labor … that better job accessibility significantly decreases the duration of joblessness among lower-paid displaced workers …

, unconditional and conditional on non-employment duration; (6) TLs' new-job hazard rate (wage) jumps (drops) when recall likelihood … falls; (7) Extending unemployment benefits increases separations in recall-intense sectors …

We study how unemployment benefit eligibility affects the layoff exit rate by exploiting quasi-experimental variation … 12% in the layoff probability when unemployment benefit eligibility is attained, which persists for about 16 weeks. These …

We study how unemployment benefit eligibility affects the layoff exit rate by exploiting quasi-experimental variation … 12% in the layoff probability when unemployment benefit eligibility is attained, which persists for about 16 weeks. These …