The issue of whether unemployment benefits should increase or decrease over the unemployment spell is analyzed in an … search productivity of unemployed is constant over the unemployment spell, benefits should typically increase or be constant …

employers rank applicants by their duration in unemployment, incentivizing all job seekers to exert higher search efforts may …We empirically investigate how two-tier unemployment compensation schemes affect the profile of re-employment hazards …-employment rates at different durations. For the short-term unemployed, the hazard rate increases and negative duration dependence …