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 …

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

focus is to explore how the conditions in the pre-displacement firm affect the duration of unemployment. The empirical … of employment and the duration of the previous employment match are established to be important determinants for the time … spent in unemployment. The heterogeneity of the signalling effect across various employee subgroups in the economy is also …

This paper estimates the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Job search theory implies that if …' reemployment wages on average, but did not affect wages conditional on unemployment duration. Resulting IV estimates imply … substantial negative effects of unemployment duration on wages of 0.8% per month …

Standard job search theory assumes that unemployed individuals have perfect information about the effect of their …

involves conditioning elapsed duration on completed unemployment duration in the reservation wage equation. Our analysis … duration coefficient suggests that higher reservation wages negatively influence the probability of exiting unemployment … confirms that the use of elapsed duration alone compounds two separate and opposing influences. Only with the inclusion of …

-cognitive skills have a predictive power on unemployment transitions …

We estimate the effect of a shortening of unemployment benefit entitlements on unemployment duration. Previous studies … on the same or related problems have not taken into account that the competing risks duration model is not identified and … suggest an assumption on the dependence structure between risks which is milder than what conventional duration models assume …

individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit generosity, either in terms of benefit duration or … 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 …