change in SWB predicts job search and unemployment duration. The findings suggest that those who report feeling hurt by …: search effort and unemployment duration are affected by the utility differential between having a job and being unemployed. … unemployment have shorter unemployment durations. Men who report a loss of SWB are also more likely to look for a job, but women …

Similar to numerous other European countries, Germany's unemployment policy went through a paradigm shift in 2005 … draw causal inference of sanction enforcements on unemployment exit hazards. Based on a novel survey sample covering the …

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 …

We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in Missouri affected search behavior of … effect of maximum duration on UI and nonemployment spells of approximately 0.45 and 0.25 respectively. We use the RDD … estimates to simulate the unemployment rate assuming no market-level externalities. The simulated response, which implies almost …

In June 1995, the Swedish parliament decided to cut the replacement rate in unemployment insurance from 80 percent to …

Should unemployment benefits be paid indefinitely at a fixed rate, or should it decline (or increase) over a worker …'s unemployment spell? We examine these issues using an equilibrium model of search unemployment. The model features worker … optimal insurance program implies a declining benefit sequence over the spell of unemployment. Numerical calibrations of the …

Should unemployment compensation be paid indefinitely at a fixed rate, or should it decline (or increase) over a worker …'s unemployment spell? We examine these issues using an equilibrium model of search unemployment. The model features worker … optimal insurance program implies a declining sequence of unemployment compensation over the spell of unemployment. Numerical …