Unemployment durations are determined by a number of factors. According to mainstream economics theory, unemployment … before the spell of unemployment will experience shorter spells of unemployment than workers who had a permanent contract … before. We adopt a flexible hazard rate model with a nonparametric baseline to analyse data on unemployment spells in Germany …

on the exit rate from unemployment. The microeconometric estimation of the structural model allows us to deal with this … found. Results highlight a different impact of the production of information on unemployment spells according to the type of … job found. Besides, search methods have a discriminating effect on unemployment duration. …

unemployment and possible unobserved heterogeneity in the duration model. Results highlight the selectivity of the search …

This paper aims at estimating the impact of search strategies (effort and search channels) on unemployment duration. A …

reduce unemployment duration but they are not relevant in Finland, suggesting that these aspects are not so important in …We examine how unemployment schemes and liquidity constraints affect re-employment probabilities and unemployment … conditions of individuals actually increase duration. We perform the analysis on Finland, Italy and Poland, countries that …

We assess the unemployment duration-dependent impact of the 2008 Labor Contract Law on job finding probabilities and …