unemployed in the outflow from unemployment, (3) a matching process with strongly increasing returns to scale throughout (rather …In this paper we compare the nature and determinants of outflows from unemployment in the case of the Czech and Slovak … exceptionally low unemployment rate in the Czech Republic as compared to Slovakia and the other Central and East European economies …

The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed … 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 …

), we establish that the unemployment rate, the job separation rate, and the job finding rate exhibit a larger response to … of the state dependence in the unemployment rate, 76 percent for the separation rate and 36 percent for the job finding …

The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed … 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 …