equivalent workers fall sharply as unemployment duration progresses. We use the model to quantitatively assess the consequences … of such employer behavior for job finding rates and long term unemployment and find only modest effects given the large … decline in callbacks. Interviews lost to duration impact individual job-finding rates solely if they would have led to jobs …

unemployment benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, and discuss implementation issues that may arise in similar … nonparametric estimation (e.g. Imbens et al. (2012) and Calonico et al. (2014)) are sometimes interpreted by practitioners as … pointing to a default estimation procedure, we show that in any given application different procedures may perform better or …

is imputed using existing labor supply elasticities, and variations in unemployment insurance laws are used to estimate …

being a worker with zero unemployment duration, the wage with ranking is much more sensitive to changes in the tightness of … unemployment, called ranking. With the filling of vacancies unaffected by the selection rule, both equilibria have the same … aggregate dynamics, but different distributions of unemployment durations. With the threat point for the Nash bargained wage …

This paper presents new evidence on why unemployment insurance (UI) benefits affect search behavior and develops a … unemployment durations caused by UI benefits is due to a quot;liquidity effectquot; rather than distortions in marginal incentives … results because it does not require structural estimation of primitives …

We develop a model of self-sustaining discrimination in wages, coupled with higher unemployment and shorter employment … duration among blacks. While white workers are hired and retained indefinitely without monitoring, black workers are monitored …

that employer screening plays an important role in generating duration dependence; employers use the unemployment spell …This paper studies the role of employer behavior in generating "negative duration dependence" -- the adverse effect of … a longer unemployment spell -- by sending fictitious resumes to real job postings in 100 U.S. cities. Our results …

We study the optimal design of unemployment insurance for workers sampling job opportunities over time. We focus on the … duration of unemployment spells … absolute risk aversion preferences, a very simple policy is optimal: a constant benefit during unemployment, a constant tax …

-funded unemployment insurance program. We show that when the duration of unemployment is very short compared to the period of employment …This paper analyzes a social insurance system that integrates unemployment insurance with a pension program through an … individual account, allowing workers to borrow against their future wage income to finance consumption during an unemployment …

of higher unemployment insurance benefits, individuals who filed just before and just after sixteen benefit increases are … period of unemployment insurance receipt by about one week. This effect is precisely estimated and found using several … approaches. the incidence of layoffs resulting in unemployment insurance claims is unaffected by the increases. The evidence does …