extensions across states to estimate the overall impact of these extensions on unemployment duration, comparing the experience … extensions on unemployment transitions and duration. We rely on individual variation in benefit availability based on the … duration of unemployment spells and the length of UI benefits available in the state and month, conditional on state economic …

This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high … to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported reservation wages decline at a modest rate over the spell of unemployment, with … point estimates ranging from 0.05 to 0.14 percent per week of unemployment. The decline in reservation wages is driven …

; 6) time devoted to job search is fairly constant regardless of unemployment duration for those who are ineligible for UI … 50 states and D.C., job search is inversely related to the generosity of unemployment benefits, with an elasticity … of 2.5; 5) job search intensity for those eligible for Unemployment Insurance (UI) increases prior to benefit exhaustion …

This paper uses a unique Portuguese data set to examine the effect of unemployment benefit receipt and maximum duration … of benefits on escape rates from unemployment. The focus is on the time profile of transitions out of unemployment. The … disincentive effects of the unemployment benefit system is reported. This result obtains both in general and for the various …

This paper examines the effects of unemployment insurance on escape rates from unemployment using data from the 1998 … Displaced Worker Survey. Transitions from unemployment to employment are modeled using a flexible representation of the baseline … hazard function and allowing for discrete changes through time in the effects of unemployment insurance benefits, as well as …

In Portugal duration of benefits is exclusively age determined while replacement rates are to all intents and purposes … uniform. We exploit differences in potential maximum duration of benefits for nearly matched pairs of individuals who differ … in age by one year and in potential maximum duration of benefits by three months. In specifications that take account of …

benefits entitlement period. The results point towards a hump-shape response of unemployment duration over the one-year pre-unemployment … extended unemployment benefits. Our empirical exercise explores a quasi-experimental setting generated by an increase in the … interquartile range. This behavior of job searchers is consistent with labor supply models with unemployment insurance and savings …

system on the duration of unemployment in Germany on the basis of a flexible discrete-time hazard rate model estimated on pre … the duration of unemployment. Our simulation results show that the recent labour market reform is unlikely to have a major … impact on the average duration of unemployment in the population as a whole, but will significantly reduce the level of long …

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

This paper studies the effect of unemployment benefits on the unemployment and subsequent employment duration using … unemployment and subsequent employment duration for the recipients is statistically significant for the short-term unemployed in … a two-state mixed proportional hazard model allowing for flexible duration dependence and state specific unobserved …