us to assess the effect of job search methods on escape rates from unemployment and, in a new departure, the impact of …

expellee inflow was distributed very asymmetrically across two West German regions. A dynamic two-region search and matching … model of unemployment, which is exposed to the asymmetric expellee inflow, closely fits historical data on the regional … unemployment differential and the regional migration rate. Both variables increase dramatically after the inflow and decline only …

discouraged and thus increases search. On average, optimism increases the duration of unemployment by about 6.5%. … unemployment entry, optimism decreases job finding by about 8%. This effect weakens over the unemployment spell and eventually … switches sign after about 8 months of unemployment. From then onward, optimism prevents un- employed individuals from becoming …

while working. Welfare stigma and other hard-to-observe factors may affect outcomes as on-the-job search and the duration … duration until the exit from welfare is hardly affected. Focusing on heterogeneity among workers suggests that life …

1996. I do not find any effects of unemployment duration on the transition from unemployment to selfemployment. Moreover …