individual unemployment benefit spell durations. We compare a period of expansion (2005-2007) and the recent recession (2009 … particularly strong in the first year of the spell. Moreover, slight negative duration dependence is found, especially for stable … jobs in the expansion period until the time of unemployment benefit expires. Individuals who are most affected by the …

did not affect total post-unemployment earnings indicating that the positive effects on job finding and job turnover …

unemployment duration by 5.7 weeks (or 14%), implying an elasticity of 0.86. We find strong behavioral effects as the reform … reduced the expected unemployment duration right from the beginning of the unemployment spell. While the reform had no effect … 180 days of unemployment for all spells beginning on July 15, 2012. Using Social Security data and a Differences …

unemployment into either new job or recall. The recall probability is allowed to affect the search intensity for new jobs. …

duration dependence in unemployment benefits in a random on the job search model featuring two-sided heterogeneity. General …

unemployment exit rate are separable. The model we use in this paper allows for both the individual duration dependence pattern and …Mixed proportional hazard models are commonly used to estimate duration dependence and unobserved heterogeneity in … unemployment exit rates. Some strong assumptions are made in this framework, i.e. that the various influences on the individual …

This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with two destination … unlucky draws that yields a non-proper duration distribution; and a split-population model in which the decision by some … unemployment. Although we do not reject the null of proportionality, abandoning the proportionality assumption does not materially …

unemployment into either new job or recall. The recall probability is allowed to affect the search intensity for new jobs …

sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We …Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … estimate multi-spell duration models with selection on unobserved characteristics.We find that a vacancy referral increases the …

wage and unemployment duration. We consider a model of household job search in which the outcomes of bargaining are … unemployment duration: the more the husband earns, the longer the wife searches for a job; whereas the more the wife earns, the … sooner the husband finds a job. Secondly, an increase of $100 in unemployment insurance (UI) per month lowers employment rate …