The introduction of unemployment insurance savings accounts UISA in Chile in October 2002 brought in more comprehensive … unemployment protection while decreasing the opportunity costs of job change. Being the first to empirically investigate the effect … of UISA on employment duration, this paper examines i whether the introduction of UISA affected employment duration among …

The Beveridge curve depicts a negative relationship between unemployed workers and job vacancies, a robust finding … underlying theory is the search and matching model, with workers and firms engaging in costly search leading to random matching …. The Beveridge curve depicts the steady state of the model, whereby inflows into unemployment are equal to the outflows …

and by the need to reallocate workers across productive activities. The duration of unemployment and jobs and wage …This paper surveys recent work in equilibrium models of labor markets characterized by search and recruitment frictions … policies on wages and unemployment. …

unemployed workers and on their exit rate from unemployment. For that purpose, we specify and estimate two structural search …In this paper, we examine the disincentive effects of the state of employment service on the search effort of … models in which unemployed workers select their optimal search intensity given the exogenous arrival rate of job offers …

This paper uses data from a natural experiment to investigate the potential incentive effect of a fixed unemployment … last group was affected by a rule change that in practice extended the length of unemployment benefits to more than 3 years. …

We investigate why we observe non-negative duration dependence among young unemployed men in urban Ethiopia. Assuming … that genuine duration dependence is negative, there are five explanations for a non-decreasing hazard: the presence of … unemployment benefits, the existence of Active Labour Market Policies, the change in labour demand, segmentation of the labour …

We investigate why we observe non-negative duration dependence among young unemployed men in urban Ethiopia. Assuming … that genuine duration dependence is negative, there are five explanations for a non-decreasing hazard: the presence of … unemployment benefits, the existence of Active Labour Market Policies, the change in labour demand, segmentation of the labour …

found to have many predictors in common with unemployment, but also a number of differences. Additional models are estimated …

In this paper we investigate the behaviour of net flows of persons between employment, unemployment and not in the … labour force in Australia between 1979-2003 and the relationship of these flows to changes in the unemployment rate over that … period. We find that: flows from unemployment to employment exceed flows from employment to unemployment and that this is the …

Univariate spectral analysis is used to model seasonally unadjusted quarterly unemployment rate data for Australia …