-employment duration, unemployment duration, and re-employment wages in the case of job displacements due to firm closures. We use … and the re-employment duration, reduces the risk of staying unemployed, and leads to higher wages at the lower end of the … from active labor market policies in terms of re-employment probability, duration of re-employment, and risk of …

This paper studies how changes in extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefit affect the duration of unemployment. We … separation from the previous job in the Japanese UI system which determines a worker's maximum potential UI benefit duration at … not lead to a decrease in the jobless hazard; the duration of unemployment is not prolonged among jobseekers who have …

among men and women. The two reforms in conjunction are estimated to have increased the expected duration of unemployment … among men but to have decreased the duration of unemployment among women. The overall effect on the duration of unemployment …