and time-to-exhaustion. Increases in unemployment insurance (UI) benefit levels had a small disincentive effect on the re …. Re-employment hazards increased when UI exhaustion was imminent, but the change was small. Extensions to unemployment …

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 …

We study migration and commuting among participants in labour market programmes and individuals in open unemployment …