This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in … difficult-to-explain trends in the unemployment rate of older German workers …

workers are unemployed. Both the reemployment hazard rate and reemployment earnings steadily fall with unemployment duration … results imply that skill depreciation in general human capital is unlikely to be a major explanation for duration dependence …

) extensions can be used as instrumental variables (IV) for unemployment duration. Using a regression discontinuity design, the … substantial negative effects of unemployment duration on wages of 0.8% per month …This paper provides quasi-experimental estimates of the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Using …

One goal of extending the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) in recessions is to increase UI coverage in the face … of longer unemployment spells. Although it is a common concern that such extensions may themselves raise nonemployment … differential effects of UI in booms and recessions, this paper exploits the fact that, in Germany, potential UI benefit duration is …

the measurement of earnings dynamics in administrative and survey data alike. Empirically, earnings at the start or end of …

ambiguity of some explanatory variables. The data basis are unemployed persons leaving the unemployment register within a given … unemployment compensation play minor roles …

The job finding rate of Unemployment Insurance (UI) recipients declines in the initial months of unemployment and then … effort. The panel structure allows us to observe how search effort evolves within individual over the unemployment spell. We …

States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains …

This paper presents a theoretical model dealing with the duration of youth unemployment in West Germany. Duration can … restrictions such as standard work time and entitlement to unemployment compensation are taken into account. The probability of …