Can unemployment insurance (UI) affect the behavior of employed workers and the duration of their employment spells? I … schedule, I find that a 1% higher potential benefit level increases job duration by around 0.35%. This result is driven by the … simple model showing that the positive effect on employment duration implies that the optimal benefit is higher than …

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 …

around 0.65%. Second, by exploiting the UI potential duration schedule, I find that granting workers with an extra month of …

Can the potential availability of unemployment insurance (UI) affect the behavior of employed workers and the duration … duration by around 0.3%. Such result is driven by the fact that higher UI decreases the probability of job quits, which are not … simple model to assess the economic relevance of this finding. It shows that the positive effect on employment duration …

We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in Missouri affected search behavior of … effect of maximum duration on UI and nonemployment spells of approximately 0.45 and 0.25 respectively. We use the RDD …

, ignoring self-employment. In this paper, we analyze how the potential duration of unemployment benefits, a fundamental design … insurance information with business survey data. Exploiting reform and age-related exogenous variation in the potential duration … of unemployment benefits, we find that longer potential benefit duration implies longer actual unemployment and, as a …