to labor market policies, but it cannot do both. Variable search and separation, finite UI benefit duration, efficiency wages, and capital all fail to resolve this puzzle. However, either sticky wages or match-specific productivity shocks can improve the model’s performance by making the firm’s flow

unemployment benefits on re-employment rates: evidence from the Finnish UI-benefit reform

This paper measures the effect of the ongoing extensions of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits on the unemployment rate using a calibrated structural model that features job search and consumption-saving decisions, skill depreciation, UI eligibility, and UI benefit extensions that capture what

I investigate in this paper partial equilibrium labor supply responses to unemployment insurance (UI) in the US. I use administrative data on the universe of unemployment spells in five states from 1976 to 1984, and non-parametrically identify the effect of both benefit level and potential duration

This paper measures the effect of extensions of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits on the unemployment rate using a calibrated structural model that features job search and consumption-saving decision, skill depreciation, UI eligibility, and UI benefit extensions that capture what has happened

We study how extended unemployment benefits for older workers affect (i) the incidence of early retirement and (ii) the pathways through which worker exit the labor market. In many countries, early retirement schemes consist of special rules for older workers in unemployment-insurance (UI

A duration model based on the time on Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits instead of a model based on the time till re-employment is more relevant from a cost-benefit per-spective. The contribution of this paper is to extend the standard (mixed) Proportional Hazard model to account for an upper

There are different strategies to integrate software systems: integration on the data layer, on the business logic layer, and on the user interface layer. The latter area, recently gaining attention by the rising popularity of Web 2.0 mashups, can benefit heavily from formal models and ontologies

unemployment insurance (UI) benefits in Austria. Analyzing data for over one-half million job losers, we obtain three empirical results: (1) a lump-sum severance payment equal to two months of earnings reduces the job-finding rate by 8-12 % on average; (2) an extension of the potential duration of UI benefits

Fifty-eight percent of the workers enrolled in the Illinois Claimant Bonus experiment were eligible for 38 weeks of Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits--26 weeks of state-regular benefits plus 12 weeks of Federal Supplemental Compensation (FSC). The other 42 percent were eligible for only 26 weeks