The effect of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations is a long-studied topic in public finance. Most papers follow a reduced-form approach and show that higher benefits lead to longer unemployment durations. Few papers, however, make use of the estimated parameters to learn something about the trade-off between the intended and unintended effects of providing unemployment benefits. The conventional ...
This paper identifies and quantifies the social processes that account for the well-known relationship between chronological age and entry into marriage. Patterns of entry into marriage, broken down by sex, year of birth and level of schooling, are used to estimate year to year fluctuations in the available pool of marriage partners. Age-related variation in entry into marriage is then considered in ...