This paper studies how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects individuals’ job search behavior and re … benefit duration from 12 to 15 months for recipients of age 50 to 54. Based on detailed survey data and difference …

This paper studies how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects early job search behavior and re … potential benefit duration from 12 to 15 months for benefit recipients of age 50 to 54. Based on detailed survey data and a … duration of individuals entering UI after the reform. Among individuals who got treated at later stages of their unemployment …

duration in Germany paired with individual-level data on job search behavior to directly investigate this assumed relationship … the benefit scheme: the extension of the benefit duration caused job search effort to significantly decrease, lowering the … duration: a 10 percent increase in the number of filed job applications is found to increase the short-run job …

This paper studies how the potential duration of unemployment benefits affects individuals' job search behavior and re … benefit duration from 12 to 15 months for recipients of age 50 to 54. Based on detailed survey data and difference …

. The data are from a randomized experiment conducted in the Netherlands. They include registers of post …

. The data are from a randomized experiment conducted in the Netherlands. They include registers of post …

different large-scale quasi-experiments on changing potential benefit duration (PBD) in unemployment insurance (UI). Thereby, we …

We test the predictions of an equilibrium search model about the effects of an increase in the maximum duration of … unemployment benefits. We use the 1999 unemployment insurance reform of Portugal, a quasi-natural experiment. The reform increased … the maximum duration of benefits for three groups of agents and maintained all features of the unemployment insurance for …

This paper analyses data from a large-scale field experiment where unemployed workers were randomly assigned to an …

of male job seekers in West Germany in the year 2000, we analyze the effects of vacancy referrals and sanctions on the … unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We estimate multispell … duration models with selection on unobserved characteristics. We find that a vacancy referral increases the transition rate …