negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …

Individual labour market transitions from unemployment into temporary work are often succeeded by a transition from …-state duration model, applying the ?timing of events? approach. To deal with selectivity, the model incorporates transitions from … unemployment to temporary jobs and unobserved determinants of the transition rates. The data contain multiple spells in labour …

; 6) time devoted to job search is fairly constant regardless of unemployment duration for those who are ineligible for UI … 50 states and D.C., job search is inversely related to the generosity of unemployment benefits, with an elasticity … of 2.5; 5) job search intensity for those eligible for Unemployment Insurance (UI) increases prior to benefit exhaustion …

found that Internet job search (IJS) was associated with longer unemployment durations in 1998/2000 - using comparable data … from a decade later. We find that IJS now appears to be effective: it reduces individual workers' unemployment durations by …. IJS appears to be most effective in reducing unemployment durations when used to contact friends and relatives, to send …

the duration of unemployment, yet also giving unemployed individuals more time to search for better and more stable jobs … evaluate the impact of marginal employment on unemployment duration and subsequent job quality, we consider a sample of fresh … incentives due to higher net earnings. Additional earnings during unemployment might lead to higher reservation wages prolonging …

Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may …

native born and immigrant groups, in terms of their impact on the duration of unemployment. Our main finding is that …Most immigrant groups experience higher rates of unemployment than the host countries native population, but it is as … unemployment cannot generally be explained by differences in the choice of main job search method or in observable characteristics …

entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite … the disincentive effect of UI on unemployment duration, UI benefit generosity may also increase job match quality by … benefit duration on unemployment duration and post-unemployment outcomes. We find a spike in the re-employment hazard for the …

-finding rates. A search-matching model with endogenous separations and worker heterogeneity in terms of ability has difficulty in …

This paper investigates spatial correlation in the matching process of vacant jobs and job seekers. The importance of … autocorrelation in regional hires, unemployment and vacancy levels, we examine the patterns of new matches in regions, identify … clusters of regions of particularly intense interregional matching, and examine the effects of German re-unification. After …