sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We …Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … estimate multi-spell duration models with selection on unobserved characteristics.We find that a vacancy referral increases the …

search behavior using a novel panel data set of newly-unemployed individuals in Germany. Consistent with our theoretical …

entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite … the disincentive effect of UI on unemployment duration, UI benefit generosity may also increase job match quality by … unemployment benefits in Germany, which increases from 12 months to 18 months at the age of 45, to identify the effect of extended …

effect of unemployment on life satisfaction …

duration dependence in unemployment benefits in a random on the job search model featuring two-sided heterogeneity. General …

This paper studies how changes in extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefit affect the duration of unemployment. We … not lead to a decrease in the jobless hazard; the duration of unemployment is not prolonged among jobseekers who have … longer maximum benefit duration. This result is robust to shorter and longer tenure before entering unemployment. The non …

the duration of unemployment, yet also giving unemployed individuals more time to search for better and more stable jobs … evaluate the impact of marginal employment on unemployment duration and subsequent job quality, we consider a sample of fresh …In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income during job search by taking up …

effects diminish with the elapsed unemployment duration until a sanction is imposed. The limited use of benefit sanctions can …We analyze the effect of imposed benefit sanctions on the unemployment-to-employment transition of unemployed people … entitled to unemployment compensation on the basis of register data from the German Federal Employment Agency. We combine …

unemployment and estimate multivariate duration models. While we do not find any significant impact on the job finding probability …In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income by working a few hours per week. The … analyze the unemployment dynamics of job seekers with and without marginal employment, we consider an inflow sample into …