Previous studies estimating the effect of generosity of unemployment insurance (UI) on unemployment duration has found … take up by about 2.5 weeks, overall duration in unemployment and the probability of employment is largely unaffected … that as job seekers approach benefit exhaustion the probability of leaving unemployment increases sharply. Such "spikes" in …

-to-inactivity (UN) transition rates by unemployment duration for male workers. When estimated for the period of 2004-2007, during which …Using the monthly CPS, the author estimates unemployment-to-employment (UE) transition rates and unemployment … that the benefit extensions in recent years have raised male workers' unemployment rate by 0.9-1.7 percentage points …

sharply over the spell of unemployment; (2) the self-reported reservation wage predicts whether a job offer is accepted or … rejected; (3) the reservation wage is remarkably stable over the course of unemployment for most workers, with the notable … devoted to job search and the reservation wage help predict early exits from Unemployment Insurance (UI). -- unemployment …

The single most likely way to leave the unemployment insurance (UI) register in Hungary is not by getting a job but by …

Unemployment Insurance benefit durations were extended during the Great Recession, reaching 99 weeks for most …-2014, we estimate the effect of extended benefits on unemployment exits separately during the earlier period of benefit …

by comparing the future situation of ("treated") unemployed entering into FTCs after a particular unemployment duration … employment and unemployment. The empirical analysis is based on propensity score matching methods, obtaining the effects of FTCs … persons entering into FTCs after a certain number of month of unemployment are reasonable. A first counterfactual is never to …

spell duration and improved post-unemployment job quality. In contrast to many previous empirical studies that have … addressed the negative benefit effect on duration only, the current paper jointly addresses the causal effect of unemployment … benefits on both unemployment duration and post-unemployment wages. Based on panel data from the Survey of Income and Program …

job finding networks. Using matched employer-employee data from Hungary, this paper relates the unemployment duration of …

enables strategic sick reporting reduces the mean unemployment duration by 4 days. … care system on unemployment durations. We estimate that for around 25% of unemployed workers, removing the channel that …

-employment duration, unemployment duration, and re-employment wages in the case of job displacements due to firm closures. We use … and the re-employment duration, reduces the risk of staying unemployed, and leads to higher wages at the lower end of the … from active labor market policies in terms of re-employment probability, duration of re-employment, and risk of …