We evaluate the effect of a drastic cut in potential benefit duration, reducing the maximum length of UI benefits from …

agricultural sector, in addition to immigrant-specific variables, such as duration of residence, naturalization (U.S. citizenship … citizens and those fluent in English. A non-linear pattern emerges for duration of residence. Employment is significantly lower … plateau with little variation by duration of residence. Among refugees from the former USSR, employment is particularly low …

We quantify micro and macro effects of changes in the potential benefit duration (PBD) in unemployment insurance. In …

benefits. Using a competing risk duration model, this paper measures the size of the entitlement effect across two labor …

years on job search. The U.S. government extended UI benefits in several phases in 2008-2009, increasing the duration of the …

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 … provisions to evaluate the impact of extending the duration of eligibility on re-employment probabilities and wages over the 36 …