sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … estimate multi-spell duration models with selection on unobserved characteristics. We find that a vacancy referral increases …

This paper examines the effects of unemployment benefit duration in Finland. To overcome the problem that the maximum … duration of benefits is the same for all unemployed we exploit two observations. First, despite the uniform maximum benefit … period, potential benefit duration at the beginning of unemployment spells varies across individuals because only those with …

' reemployment wages on average, but did not affect wages conditional on unemployment duration. Resulting IV estimates imply … substantial negative effects of unemployment duration on wages of 0.8% per month. …

the effect that UIC has on the fraction of time spent employed. The estimation procedure simultaneously allows for …

unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We estimate multispell … duration models with selection on unobserved characteristics. We find that a vacancy referral increases the transition rate …

that ignore self-employment. In this paper, we assess how UI benefit duration affects the motivation for creating a startup … benefit duration (PBD) within the German UI system, we find that longer PBD leads to longer actual unemployment duration for … those becoming self-employed. Furthermore, the UI duration elasticity for these individuals is higher than common estimates …

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 …