duration (PBD) on reservation wages and on other dimensions of job selectivity, using a difference-in-difference strategy. We … of hours, duration of labor contract and commuting time/distance. The estimated elasticity of actual benefit duration …

accessibility to appropriate jobs should shorten the duration of unemployment. We focus on lower-income workers with strong labor … that better job accessibility significantly decreases the duration of joblessness among lower-paid displaced workers …

benefits or by taxing unemployment benefits) could significantly lower the average duration of unemployment and the relative … number of long duration spells of unemployment. Because of the non-linear response of the unemployment duration to the …

revisions to decompose the variation in the duration of benefits into the part coming from actual differences in economic … outcomes. We use our estimates to quantify the effects of the increase in the duration of benefits during the Great Recession …

We explore the extent to which composition, duration dependence, and labor force non-participation can account for the … model that allows for duration dependence in the exit rate from unemployment and for transitions between employment (E … observed outward shift in the Beveridge curve between 2008 and 2013. Both negative duration dependence in the job-finding rate …

equivalent workers fall sharply as unemployment duration progresses. We use the model to quantitatively assess the consequences … decline in callbacks. Interviews lost to duration impact individual job-finding rates solely if they would have led to jobs …. Discrimination in callbacks is thus largely a response to dynamic selection, with limited consequences for structural duration …

stationary search problems, the optimal subsidies are independent of unemployment duration. In contrast, when workers are … determinants of the shape of the optimal subsidy schedule, isolating forces for subsidies to optimally rise or fall with duration …