This paper accounts for the observed increase in unemployment duration relative to the unemployment rate in the U ….S. over the past thirty years, typified by the record low level of short-term unemployment. We show that part of the increase … remaining increase in unemployment duration relative to the unemployment rate is concentrated among women, whose unemployment …

insight into the problem by examining the determinants of transitions between non-employment (or unemployment) and employment …

We examine the effects of unemployment insurance (UI) experience rating on layoffs using high quality firm and …

Using data from a social experiment, we estimate the impact of training on the duration of employment and unemployment … unemployment spells lead to biased estimates of the effects of training. We present and implement several econometric approaches … unemployment spells …

unemployment, called ranking. With the filling of vacancies unaffected by the selection rule, both equilibria have the same … aggregate dynamics, but different distributions of unemployment durations. With the threat point for the Nash bargained wage … being a worker with zero unemployment duration, the wage with ranking is much more sensitive to changes in the tightness of …

of higher unemployment insurance benefits, individuals who filed just before and just after sixteen benefit increases are … period of unemployment insurance receipt by about one week. This effect is precisely estimated and found using several … approaches. the incidence of layoffs resulting in unemployment insurance claims is unaffected by the increases. The evidence does …

This paper uses two data sets to examine the impact of the potential duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits … on the duration of unemployment and the time pattern of the escape rate from unemployment in the United States. The first … part of the empirical work uses a large sample of household heads to examine differences in the unemployment spell …

Most data used to study the durations of unemployment spells come from the Current Population Survey, which is a point … unemployment spells obtained from panel data and apply CPS sampling and reporting techniques to replicate the type of data used by … distribution. We conclude that the best inferences that can be made about unemployment durations using CPS-like data are seriously …

considerably lower wages. At the same time, the data provide no evidence that early unemployment sets off a vicious cycle of … recurrent unemployment. The reduced employment effects die off very quickly. What appears to persist are effects of lost work …

This paper analyses job seekers' perceptions and their relationship to unemployment outcomes to study heterogeneity and … finding rates, accounting for almost all of the observed decline in job finding rates over the spell of unemployment. Moreover … unemployment. The biases can explain more than 10 percent of the incidence of long-term unemployment …