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 …

The relationship between unemployment benefit duration, unemployment duration and subsequent job duration is … be correlated with unemployment duration as well as accepted job duration. I examine two potential explanations for the … is also found to explain the correlation between unemployment and job duration. Various simulations indicate that …

, whereby special focus is placed on unemployment duration. The results of the study indicate that in contrast to reservation … wages, offered wages decline considerably with duration of unemployment. This is the main reason that ratios of reservation … wages to offered wages increase rapidly with duration of unemployment; on average, reservation wages begin to exceed offered …