Can the potential availability of unemployment insurance (UI) affect the behavior of employed workers and the duration … duration by around 0.3%. Such result is driven by the fact that higher UI decreases the probability of job quits, which are not … simple model to assess the economic relevance of this finding. It shows that the positive effect on employment duration …

unemployment benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, and discuss implementation issues that may arise in similar … nonparametric estimation (e.g. Imbens et al. (2012) and Calonico et al. (2014)) are sometimes interpreted by practitioners as … pointing to a default estimation procedure, we show that in any given application different procedures may perform better or …

unemployment insurance on unemployment duration in Brazil, where we find strong evidence of manipulation at eligibility cutoffs. …

Can unemployment insurance (UI) affect the behavior of employed workers and the duration of their employment spells? I … schedule, I find that a 1% higher potential benefit level increases job duration by around 0.35%. This result is driven by the … simple model showing that the positive effect on employment duration implies that the optimal benefit is higher than …