spells lengthen. Moreover, we also study the influence of this willingness on unemployment duration. The main results are: (i … negative duration dependence of the unemployment hazard rate is substantially reduced when unobserved heterogeneity is … qualification. We analyze which personal and economic characteristics determine this willingness and how it changes as unemployment …

This paper investigates how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects the quality of post-unemployment … the contract (temporary vs. permanent), the duration of the post-unemployment jobs, or the wage earned in this job …. -- unemployment insurance ; potential benefit duration ; job separation rates ; post-unemployment wages …

This paper investigates the disincentive effects of the potential duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. The … the potential benefit duration and had characteristics of a natural experiment. We find that the change had a positive … effect on the exit rate out of unemployment - both to employment and to other destinations - at various durations of …

unemployment duration by 5.7 weeks (or 14%), implying an elasticity of 0.86. We find strong behavioral effects as the reform … reduced the expected unemployment duration right from the beginning of the unemployment spell. While the reform had no effect … 180 days of unemployment for all spells beginning on July 15, 2012. Using Social Security data and a Differences …

mobility or mobility shocks, we propose a multi-sector business cycle model with on-the-job search and endogenous occupational …

mobility or mobility shocks, we propose a multi-sector business cycle model with on-the-job search and endogenous occupational …

This chapter assesses how models with search frictions have shaped our understanding of aggregate labor market outcomes … market outcomes for a large set of OECD countries. We then ask how models with search improve our understanding of these data …. Our results are mixed. Search models are useful for interpreting the behavior of some additional data series, but search …

(carrots) and restrictive (sticks) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations …, employment, and post-unemployment earnings using register data that contain PES and case-worker identifiers for about 130,000 job … seekers. The results show that "carrots" and "sticks" treatments prolong unemployment, but carrots increase earnings whereas …

) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations, employment, and postunemployment … intensive carrots and sticks regimes each reduce unemployment durations, but with carrots regimes this raises earnings whereas …

Recent papers identify the effects of unemployment insurance and potential benefit duration (PBD) on unemployment … duration, i.e. directly. The negative direct effect we find casts doubt on key assumptions of common models of job search. … duration and reemployment wages using quasi-experiments. To make known problems of heterogeneity in quasi-experiments tractable …