The paper analyses the effects of a 2011 increase in the unemployment benefit replacement rate on the job-finding rate … of Slovenian benefit recipients. Using registry data on the universe of Slovenian unemployment benefit recipients, we … decreased the hazard rate of the transition from unemployment to employment, with an implied elasticity of the hazard rate with …

This paper studies a program that extends the maximum duration of unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to 209 weeks … regions to identify the effect of extended benefits on unemployment duration. Results indicate that the duration of job search … is prolonged by at least .09 weeks per additional week of benefits among men, whereas unemployment duration increases by …

We present evidence for a highly significant interaction between state dependence in individual unemployment risk and … high unemployment and larger in times of low unemployment. This is consistent with the existence of stigma effects in the … sense that unemployed individuals face difficulties finding a new job because employers interpret unemployment as a negative …

We present evidence for a highly significant interaction between state dependence in individual unemployment risk and … high unemployment and larger in times of low unemployment. This is consistent with the existence of stigma effects in the … sense that unemployed individuals face difficulties finding a new job because employers interpret unemployment as a negative …

on the individual unemployment duration in West Germany. By applying a multivariate mixed proportional hazards model, we … are able to consider information of the timing of treatment in the unemployment spell as well as observable and …

involves conditioning elapsed duration on completed unemployment duration in the reservation wage equation. Our analysis … duration coefficient suggests that higher reservation wages negatively influence the probability of exiting unemployment … confirms that the use of elapsed duration alone compounds two separate and opposing influences. Only with the inclusion of …

individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit generosity, either in terms of benefit duration or … entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite … the disincentive effect of UI on unemployment duration, UI benefit generosity may also increase job match quality by …

This paper studies how cognitive and social skills in childhood are related to the duration of unemployment in …, parenting activities and school characteristics. -- unemployment duration ; social skills ; noncognitive skills ; cognitive … from unemployment to employment during an individual's first unemployment spell. The analysis is based on British cohort …

In this study, we investigate the nexus between career risk aversion and unemployment duration based on German survey … from risk aversion on unemployment duration. However, we find significant effects when controlling for a non-linear or time … varying correlation between risk aversion and unemployment duration. Our results show that risk aversion is important when …

This paper studies how cognitive and social skills in childhood are related to the duration of unemployment in … from unemployment to employment during an individual’s first unemployment spell. The analysis is based on British cohort …