This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with two destination … confirms our earlier findings but offers a more convincing explanation for positive and zero transition rates out of … unemployment. Although we do not reject the null of proportionality, abandoning the proportionality assumption does not materially …

involves conditioning elapsed duration on completed unemployment duration in the reservation wage equation. Our analysis … duration coefficient suggests that higher reservation wages negatively influence the probability of exiting unemployment …. -- reservation wages ; unemployment duration ; control function …

duration is associated with substantially higher quarterly rates of job finding in the range 53 to 106 percent. -- Unemployment … benefits ; unemployment duration ; job search …