We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment …

The purpose of the article is to present the analysis of the influence of the unemployment benefit on the duration of … the registered unemployment spells. The authors made a hypothesis that the very fact of receiving the benefit prolongs the … job seeking time and determines the intensity of unemployment leaving. The power of this influence varies depending on a …

This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high … to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported reservation wages decline at a modest rate over the spell of unemployment, with … point estimates ranging from 0.05 to 0.14 percent per week of unemployment. The decline in reservation wages is driven …

participation in public vocational training significantly decreases unemployment duration or increases employment duration. …This study analyses the effects of public sector sponsored vocational training on individual unemployment and … employment duration in East Germany. The data is taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). The empirical analysis is …

Using a proportional hazard model with multiple exits, this paper analyzes whether immigrants' unemployment spells … data set taken from the Swedish unemployment registers is used. The data set covers the period 1991 to 1996, a period of … substantial increases in both unemployment rates as well as in immigration. The estimates from the hazard model suggests that a …

We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from … differences between the micro and macro unemployment definitions. The results also show to what extent the unemployment duration … unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the …

-based data set covering the period 1981-1990. The analysis is performed by estimation of reduced form transition models, the … parameters of which are interpreted within the framework of search theory mixed with social psychological theories regarding … unemployment and labour market exclusion. The main findings of the study are that low levels of education and working experience …

This study examines individuals' unemployment experiences from the age of 18 up to the age of 35 using a large panel of … administrative records on unemployment related benefit claims of men in the United Kingdom over the past two decades. The main focus … is on the extent to which individuals' unemployment experiences are affected by regional and skill differences, i …

Diamond (1994) that an individual's probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases … genuine duration dependence will be stronger the more depressed the labour market. In conflict with this prediction this study … provides persuasive empirical evidence that the pattern of negative genuine duration dependence does not change over the …