Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex-ante threat of sanctions. We analyze the effects of vacancy referrals and …

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante threat of sanctions. We analyze the effects of vacancy referrals and …

both unemployment and employment duration. Our analysis uses a rich administrative longitudinal data set for Germany where … unemployment. Long-term training schemes increase the average duration of employment spells more strongly than short-term training …. However, they increase the expected unemployment duration if they are started early during unemployment. This negative short …

on the individual unemployment duration in West Germany. By applying a multivariate mixed proportional hazards model, we … are able to consider information of the timing of treatment in the unemployment spell as well as observable and …

regions to identify the effect of extended benefits on unemployment duration. Results indicate that the duration of job search …This paper studies a program that extends the maximum duration of unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to 209 weeks … is prolonged by at least .09 weeks per additional week of benefits among men, whereas unemployment duration increases by …

Based on pooled register data from Norway and Sweden, we find that differences in unemployment duration patterns … reflect dissimilarities in unemployment insurance (UI) systems in a way that convincingly establishes the link between … economic incentives and job search behaviour. Specifically, UI benefits are relatively more generous for low-income workers in …

also find that the quality of the post-unemployment jobs was not affected by the activation program. Both findings confirm …

In this paper we use Portuguese data on individual (multiple) unemployment spells and apply semi-parametric duration … probability of leaving unemployment into employment. Negative duration dependence and unobserved heterogeneity are also found in … persons with muscular, skeletal, geriatric and sensorial problems experience the longest unemployment spells. Organic (blind …

duration models, I find that when transition from unemployment to different types of employment is ignored, homeownership …This paper provides new evidence on the effect of homeownership on unemployment spells by disaggregating exit from … unemployment into full-time and part-time employment using the March Current Population Survey (CPS) data from 1990 to 2013. Using …

unemployment and estimate multivariate duration models. While we do not find any significant impact on the job finding probability … analyze the unemployment dynamics of job seekers with and without marginal employment, we consider an inflow sample into … probability of marginal employment at the beginning of the unemployment spell and an increased job finding probability for the …