In this paper, we study the effects of unemployment benefit duration and the business cycle on unemployment duration …. We construct durations for individuals entering unemployment from a longitudinal sample of Spanish men in 1987 …–94. Estimated discrete hazard models indicate that receipt of unemployment benefits significantly reduces the hazard of leaving …

employment increases as they approach the time when unemployment benefits are due to expire. This pattern may not carry over to …. This paper examines movements out of unemployment using data on unemployed individuals in Sweden. A semi … evidence that the exit rate from unemployment to employment increases as benefit exhaustion is approached. …

appears that the activation program is very effective. The median unemployment duration of the control group is 14 weeks …

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

The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This Paper … evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 … weeks for elderly individuals in certain regions of Austria. In the evaluation, we explicitly account for the fact that the …

find that for beneficiaries using the SF, the pattern of job finding rates over the duration of unemployment is consistent …This study examines the determinants of job-finding rates of unemployment benefit recipients under the Chilean program … the form of unemployment insurance savings accounts (UISAs) - so as to mitigate the moral hazard problem of traditional …

) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) – affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made … unemployment insurance more generous by changing, simultaneously, the maximum duration of regular unemployment benefits and the … the maximum duration of benefits. We use these results to split up the total costs to unemployment insurance funds into …

. Unemployment insurance has the standard effect of reducing employment, but also helps workers to get a suitable job. The … States in terms of unemployment, productivity growth and wage inequality. To show this, we construct two fictitious economies … with calibrated parameters which only differ by the degree of unemployment insurance and assume that they are hit by a …

labour market institutions (e.g. unemployment benefits, job security legislation and payroll taxes) have complementary … effects on unemployment; and thus (b) that policies aimed at reforming these institutions are also complementary. These policy …) is unlikely to achieve significant reductions in unemployment. Rather, labour market reform becomes particularly …

We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment … balances in these accounts are available to them during periods of unemployment. The government is able to undertake balanced … model for the high unemployment countries of Europe. Our results suggest that this policy reform would significantly change …