In this paper we study the effects of unemployment benefit duration and the business cycle on unemployment duration. We … construct durations for individuals entering unemployment from a longitudinal sample of Spanish men in 1987-1994. Estimated … discrete hazard models indicate that receipt of unemployment benefits significantly reduces the hazard of leaving unemployment …

The existing studies of unemployment benefit and unemployment duration suggest that reforms that lower either the level … or the duration of benefits should reduce unemployment. Despite the large number of such reforms implemented in Europe in … unemployment. This paper also provides an explanation for this fact by exploring the interactions between unemployment benefits and …

unemployed individuals. At the same time, the distribution of unemployment durations between jobs did not change in response to …This paper empirically analyzes the distribution of unemployment durations in West Germany before and after the changes … during the mid 1980s in the maximum entitlement periods for unemployment benefits for elderly unemployed. The analysis is …

The effect of generous unemployment benefits on the propensity of individuals to stay on unemployment was hotly debated … during the COVID pandemic. This paper examines the impact of the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) using rich … response from men. The baseline odds of exiting versus staying on unemployment rolls (holding all else constant) for females is …

benefit duration (PBD) within the German UI system, we find that longer PBD leads to longer actual unemployment duration for … for those individuals becoming re-employed. With increasing unemployment benefit duration, the founders’ outcomes in terms … unemployment, most research has focused on analyzing the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) policies on re-employment outcomes …

find that for beneficiaries using the SF, the pattern of job finding rates over the duration of unemployment is consistent …This study examines the determinants of job-finding rates of unemployment benefit recipients under the Chilean program … the form of unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) - so as to mitigate the moral hazard problem of traditional …

entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite … the disincentive effect of UI on unemployment duration, UI benefit generosity may also increase job match quality by … benefit duration on unemployment duration and post-unemployment outcomes. We find a spike in the re-employment hazard for the …

duration of unemployment. Empirical results for the reform of the unemployment compensation system in Germany during the 1980s … unemployment is not directly observed. For this reason we bound the reform effect on unemployment duration over different … parametric model assumptions. We identify a systematic increase in unemployment duration in response to the reform in samples …

This paper investigates the disincentive effects of the potential duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. The … the potential benefit duration and had characteristics of a natural experiment. We find that the change had a positive … effect on the exit rate out of unemployment - both to employment and to other destinations - at various durations of …

We compare information on the length of unemployment spells contained in the IAB employment subsample (IABS) and in the … German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Due to the lack of information on registered unemployment in the IABS, we use two … proxies of unemployment in the IABS as introduced by Fitzenberger/Wilke (2004). The first proxy comprises all periods of …