We develop a nonparametric instrumental variable approach for the estimation of average treatment effects on hazard … abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … additional active labor market policy measures. The estimated effect of the reform on the survival function of the duration of …

remaining entitlements if reemployed before they exhaust benefits, extending potential duration not only extends benefits but … also extends reemployment bonuses. We show the effect of extended benefits on unemployment duration can be decomposed to … estimates show the imposition of bonus program reduces insured duration and nonemployment duration by about 5% and 13 …