extensions across states to estimate the overall impact of these extensions on unemployment duration, comparing the experience … extensions on unemployment transitions and duration. We rely on individual variation in benefit availability based on the … duration of unemployment spells and the length of UI benefits available in the state and month, conditional on state economic …

We identify the causal effect of lump-sum severance payments on non-employment duration in Norway by exploiting a …

providing an employment subsidy to any firm hiring workers from the LM. Eligibility duration varies with the worker's age at … dismissal. We exploit the variability of these provisions to evaluate the impact of extending the duration of eligibility on re …

regimes - i.e., regimes with a high likelihood of required participation in active labor market programs, duration limitations … pre-specified UI duration, have many of the same behavioral consequences as threats of complete benefit termination. Early … introduction of a soft constraint appears particularly effective; our results show that the expected unemployment duration falls by …

The empirical literature on unemployment insurance has focused on its direct effect on unemployment duration, while the … evidence on the effect of unemployment benefits on unemployment and employment duration in Europe, using individual data from … benefits has a direct negative effect increasing the duration of unemployment spells, there is also a positive indirect effect …

This paper investigates how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects the quality of post … substantially reduced the potential benefit duration. Although this reduction strongly increased job finding rates, the quality of … the contract (temporary vs. permanent), the duration of the post-unemployment jobs, or the wage earned in this job …

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 …

) 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 … the maximum duration of benefits. We use these results to split up the total costs to unemployment insurance funds into …

This paper studies the effect of unemployment benefits on the unemployment and subsequent employment duration using … a two-state mixed proportional hazard model allowing for flexible duration dependence and state specific unobserved … unemployment and subsequent employment duration for the recipients is statistically significant for the short-term unemployed in …