The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This paper … evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 …

We ran a large randomized controlled experiment among about 150,000 recipients of unemployment benefits insurance in … France in order to evaluate the impact of part-time unemployment benefits. We took advantage of the lack of knowledge of job … impact on the propensity to work while on claim, but reduced the unemployment exit rate, showing important lock-in effects …

This paper examines the effects of unemployment benefit duration in Finland. To overcome the problem that the maximum … period, potential benefit duration at the beginning of unemployment spells varies across individuals because only those with … we estimate that one extra week of benefits increases expected unemployment duration by 0.15 weeks, which corresponds to …

. Also the re-employment probability and post-unemployment wage are negatively affected. The results for the duration of the …This paper analyzes the effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits on unemployment exits and subsequent labor … lengthen nonemployment spells and decrease time spent in part-time unemployment, and thus result in more full-time unemployment …

Approximately 10 percent of Unemployment Insurance (UI) claimants in the United States are denied benefits after being …

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 …

employers rank applicants by their duration in unemployment, incentivizing all job seekers to exert higher search efforts may …We empirically investigate how two-tier unemployment compensation schemes affect the profile of re-employment hazards …-employment rates at different durations. For the short-term unemployed, the hazard rate increases and negative duration dependence …

This paper investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment duration. Data from the Swiss … positive effect on the exit rate out of unemployment. Moreover, the stricter the sanction policy the shorter is the duration of … unemployment of the non-sanctioned. This can be taken as evidence of a strong ex-ante effect of a strict sanction policy. …

. The data are from a randomized experiment conducted in the Netherlands. They include registers of post-unemployment … monitoring effects on post-unemployment outcomes. We find that the option to climb the job ladder reduces substitution between … search channels during unemployment and compensates for adverse long-run effects of monitoring on wages. We use the …