We use a resume audit study to better understand the role of employment and unemployment histories in affecting … disparate findings in prior studies. While we cannot reconcile earlier findings on the effect of unemployment duration, the … age range, we find that applicants with 52 weeks of unemployment have a lower callback rate than do applicants with …

results show that workers who enter temporary help work from registered unemployment do not enjoy subsequent greater chances … risks of unemployment. While our results, therefore, do not lend empirical support to a stepping-stone function of temporary … employment and unemployment chances of unemployed job seekers. If anything, temporary help work seems to provide an access …

This paper develops a framework for analyzing unemployment in terms of variations in the nt.imber and distribution of … people becoming unemployed and inindividual probabilities of leaving unemployment. Contrary to the emphasis on exit … the size and distribution of the inflow Into unemployment are the primary determinant of the unemployment rate. Instead of …

states of employment, unemployment, and non-participation. The determinants of actual household transitions are then … functions show that increased unemployment among married men has a sizeable short-run effect on both participation and …

unemployment in the event of an adverse shock. The liberalization of the disability program appears to explain both facts ….S. unemployment rate would be two-thirds of a percentage point higher at present were it not for the liberalized disability system …