aggregate unemployment duration data, in which we allow for unobserved heterogeneity and correlated measurement errors. We do …This paper examines the relation between individual unemployment durations and incidence on the one hand, and the time … currently unemployed. We also allow for the composition of the inflow into unemployment to depend on calendar time at the moment …

This Paper presents new evidence on the determinants of unemployment duration for men and women in Britain in the 1990s … inactivity. The data show that the median duration of unemployment spells among men, at 5 months, is almost double that for women … analysis suggests that policies to reduce unemployment duration and encourage full-time work, especially among men, should be …

labour market states: self-employment, employment, and unemployment. This enables us to assess the effects of changes in … unobservable individual heterogeneity, duration dependence, lagged duration dependence and state dependence. Three main results are … obtained. First, the aggregated unemployment rate is found to have a positive effect on the probability of becoming self …

Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search …-2004. We estimate duration models dealing with selection on unobservables. We use weighted exogenous sampling maximum …

This paper examines the depth and duration of the slump that invariably follows severe financial crises, which tend to … employment. The unemployment rate rises an average of 7 percentage points over the down phase of the cycle, which lasts on … average over four years. Output falls an average of over 9 percent, although the duration of the downturn is considerably …

appears that the activation program is very effective. The median unemployment duration of the control group is 14 weeks …

This Paper investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment duration. Data from the Swiss … positive effect on the exit rate out of unemployment. Moreover, the stricter the sanction policy the shorter the duration of … unemployment. This can be taken as evidence of a strong ex-ante effect of a strict sanction policy. …

monthly employment and unemployment rates and the monthly transition intensities between the states of employment …, unemployment, and out-of-the-labor- force for the German labor market between January/February 1983 and November/December 1994. The …