This paper investigates the impact of endogenous unemployment insurance (UI) extensions on the dynamics of unemployment … and its duration structure in the US. Using a search and matching model with a rich set of worker heterogeneity, I allow … for the maximum UI duration to depend on unemployment and for UI benefits to depend on worker characteristics. UI …

This paper studies how changes in extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefit affect the duration of unemployment. We … range of 44-46 who entered unemployment in the same month in the same year, we find that longer maximum benefit durations do … not lead to a decrease in the jobless hazard; the duration of unemployment is not prolonged among jobseekers who have …

We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment …

sharply over the spell of unemployment; (2) the self-reported reservation wage predicts whether a job offer is accepted or … rejected; (3) the reservation wage is remarkably stable over the course of unemployment for most workers, with the notable … devoted to job search and the reservation wage help predict early exits from Unemployment Insurance (UI). -- unemployment …

In 2001 and 2002, Sweden introduced several unemployment insurance reforms. A major innovation in the first reform was … compensation during the first 20 weeks of unemployment. The 2002 reform retained the two-tiered benefit structure but involved also … unemployment to employment. We take advantage of the fact that the reforms had quasi-experimental features where the "treatments …

This paper studies how changes in the two key parameters of unemployment insurance - the benefit replacement rate (RR …) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) - affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made … unemployment insurance more generous by changing, simultaneously, the maximum duration of regular unemployment benefits and the …

This paper studies the effect of unemployment benefits on the unemployment and subsequent employment duration using … heterogeneity. We find that recipients, relative to non-recipients, face lower exit rates from unemployment, while an additional … month in unemployment increases their subsequent employment stability. This positive correlation between previous …

This paper examines the effects of unemployment insurance on escape rates from unemployment using data from the 1998 … Displaced Worker Survey. Transitions from unemployment to employment are modeled using a flexible representation of the baseline … hazard function and allowing for discrete changes through time in the effects of unemployment insurance benefits, as well as …

In this paper, U.S. data on labor market histories of displaced workers are used to quantify the effect of Unemployment … Insurance Compensation (UIC) on both unemployment and employment durations. This results in the first available assessment of … the effect that UIC has on the fraction of time spent employed. The estimation procedure simultaneously allows for …

The objective of this paper is to examine the extent to which an individual's use of unemployment insurance (UI) as a …