Realtionship between duration of job seeking and receiving unemployment benefit : Search Theory of labour market

The aim of the article is to analyze the influence of time of unemployment benefit on the time of registered unemployment. In research were used a duration analysis methods (Kaplan-Meier estimator, Cox regression model). Analyses were conducted on the data from Local Labour Office (LLO) in Sulęcin. They were taken under the EU project. In the article will be verified the hypothesis: the fact and time of unemployment benefit lengthen the time of job finding, the strength of this influence is various in subgroups which were made according to the categories of unemployment features.