that mainly focused on estimating the effects of benefit duration on job search and acceptance strategies of the unemployed …We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the effects of unemployment insurance policies on … unemployment. Our estimates imply that most of the persistent increase in unemployment during the Great Recession can be accounted …

(market-level effect) to changes in the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. To implement this approach, we …We develop a method to jointly measure the response of worker search effort (individual effect) and vacancy creation … market. The data indicate that the cut in Missouri significantly increased job finding rates by both raising the search …

(market-level effect) to changes in the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. To implement this approach, we …We develop a method to jointly measure the response of worker search effort (individual effect) and vacancy creation … market. The data indicate that the cut in Missouri significantly increased job finding rates by both raising the search …

Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search …-2004. We estimate duration models dealing with selection on unobservables. We use weighted exogenous sampling maximum … theoretical job search model with monitoring of job offer rejection versus monitoring of job search effort. The observation window …

Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search …-2004. We estimate duration models dealing with selection on unobservables. We use weighted exogenous sampling maximum … job search model with monitoring of job offer rejection vis-a-vis monitoring of job search effort. The observation window …

local labor market pressure decreases the duration in self-employment whereas higher perceived (re-unemployment) risk and …This paper investigates the joint effect of local labor market conditions and individual differences on the duration of …

unemployment, household care and disability to employment. Then we decompose the differences in expected duration between the … rate models that account for both the stock-sampling and the possible maximum duration for the transitions from …

policy mix of unemployment insurance agencies. We analyze unique data on three sources of information on the probability of … re-employment within 6 months (RE6), for the same individuals sampled from the inflow into unemployment. First, they were …

), for the same individuals sampled from the inflow into unemployment. First, they were asked for their perceived probability …