) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) - affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made … unemployment insurance more generous by changing, simultaneously, the maximum duration of regular unemployment benefits and the … the maximum duration of benefits. We use these results to split up the total costs to unemployment insurance funds into …

This paper examines the effects of unemployment insurance on escape rates from unemployment using data from the 1998 … Displaced Worker Survey. Transitions from unemployment to employment are modeled using a flexible representation of the baseline … hazard function and allowing for discrete changes through time in the effects of unemployment insurance benefits, as well as …

This paper uses a unique Portuguese data set to examine the effect of unemployment benefit receipt and maximum duration … of benefits on escape rates from unemployment. The focus is on the time profile of transitions out of unemployment. The … disincentive effects of the unemployment benefit system is reported. This result obtains both in general and for the various …

This paper empirically analyzes the distribution of unemployment durations in West Germany before and after the changes … during the mid 1980s in the maximum entitlement periods for unemployment benefits for elderly unemployed. The analysis is … Germany. We introduce two proxies for unemployment, since the data do not involve a precise economic definition of …

duration of unemployment. Empirical results for the reform of the unemployment compensation system in Germany during the 1980s … unemployment is not directly observed. For this reason we bound the reform effect on unemployment duration over different … parametric model assumptions. We identify a systematic increase in unemployment duration in response to the reform in samples …

This paper investigates the disincentive effects of the potential duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. The … the potential benefit duration and had characteristics of a natural experiment. We find that the change had a positive … effect on the exit rate out of unemployment - both to employment and to other destinations - at various durations of …

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 …

This paper investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment duration. Data from the Swiss … positive effect on the exit rate out of unemployment. Moreover, the stricter the sanction policy the shorter is the duration of … unemployment of the non-sanctioned. This can be taken as evidence of a strong ex-ante effect of a strict sanction policy. …

The existing literature assumes that unemployment insurance (UI) affects the labor market through the job finding rate …