unemployment duration by 5.7 weeks (or 14%), implying an elasticity of 0.86. We find strong behavioral effects as the reform … reduced the expected unemployment duration right from the beginning of the unemployment spell. While the reform had no effect … 180 days of unemployment for all spells beginning on July 15, 2012. Using Social Security data and a Differences …

In this paper, I investigate the effect of extended unemployment insurance (UI) coverage in the United States in recent … years on job search. The U.S. government extended UI benefits in several phases in 2008-2009, increasing the duration of the … women are more sensitive to the extended UI benefits than men. Difference-in-differences estimation shows that the average …

In this paper, we review the literature on the "spike" in unemployment exit rates around benefit exhaustion, and … unemployment spells are measured has a large effect on the magnitude of the spike at exhaustion, both in existing studies and in … defined by the time spent on the unemployment system. In Austria, the exit rate from registered unemployment rises by over 200 …

In this paper, we review the literature on the quot;spikequot; in unemployment exit rates around benefit exhaustion … unemployment spells are measured has a large effect on the magnitude of the spike at exhaustion, both in existing studies and in … defined by the time spent on the unemployment system. In Austria, the exit rate from registered unemployment rises by over 200 …

In Portugal duration of benefits is exclusively age determined while replacement rates are to all intents and purposes … uniform. We exploit differences in potential maximum duration of benefits for nearly matched pairs of individuals who differ … in age by one year and in potential maximum duration of benefits by three months. In specifications that take account of …

The issue of whether unemployment benefits should increase or decrease over the unemployment spell is analyzed in an … search productivity of unemployed is constant over the unemployment spell, benefits should typically increase or be constant …

investigate the effects of benefits on unemployment duration. The administrative data used clearly pinpoints total unemployment … of benefits are stronger and more homogeneous when the maximum duration of unemployment insurance benefit is longer …This paper uses a unique dataset about unemployment insurance recipients and their exits to employment in Estonia to …