change in SWB predicts job search and unemployment duration. The findings suggest that those who report feeling hurt by …: search effort and unemployment duration are affected by the utility differential between having a job and being unemployed. … unemployment have shorter unemployment durations. Men who report a loss of SWB are also more likely to look for a job, but women …

the maximum duration of benefits for three groups of agents and maintained all features of the unemployment insurance for …We test the predictions of an equilibrium search model about the effects of an increase in the maximum duration of … unemployment benefits. We use the 1999 unemployment insurance reform of Portugal, a quasi-natural experiment. The reform increased …

(such as temporary contracts and mini-jobs) as well as unemployment. This combined unstable state captures a fuller picture … of the individual experience of volatile income and uncertain employment status than unemployment alone. We find that the … survival rates of unstable spells in the two countries are much more similar than those from unemployment. This suggests that …

-finding rates and the more standard view of negative effects. When unemployment compensation, if any, is low enough, we argue that … conclusion as well. Looking specifically at unemployment compensation, its optimal level is generally higher than when a lower …

unemployment spells, hours worked and monthly earnings. We also analyze whether displaced workers are more likely to be in informal … costs as additional outcomes. Displaced migrant workers do not encounter losses in terms of longer unemployment spells or …

reform on the unemployment rate and the average unemployment duration using municipality-level panel data and various panel … data estimators. We found that while the reform had a barely discernible effect on municipal unemployment rates, it … increased average unemployment durations by 2-3 weeks. Hence, face-to-face counselling and online counselling are not perfect …

-metric two-step estimation methods …

Causal effects of a policy change on hazard rates of a duration outcome variable are not identified from a comparison …