enables strategic sick reporting reduces the mean unemployment duration by 4 days. … care system on unemployment durations. We estimate that for around 25% of unemployed workers, removing the channel that …

Similar to numerous other European countries, Germany's unemployment policy went through a paradigm shift in 2005 … draw causal inference of sanction enforcements on unemployment exit hazards. Based on a novel survey sample covering the …

This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with two destination … unlucky draws that yields a non-proper duration distribution; and a split-population model in which the decision by some … unemployment. Although we do not reject the null of proportionality, abandoning the proportionality assumption does not materially …

change in SWB predicts job search and unemployment duration. The findings suggest that those who report feeling hurt by …: search effort and unemployment duration are affected by the utility differential between having a job and being unemployed. … unemployment have shorter unemployment durations. Men who report a loss of SWB are also more likely to look for a job, but women …

Using data from the CPS this paper examines the role of birth-country networks on immigrants' unemployment duration … from 2001 to 2013. We find that networks significantly lower unemployment duration for all immigrants. Varying the effect … of networks over duration categories we find that networks are more effective in lowering duration for immigrants …

, whereby special focus is placed on unemployment duration. The results of the study indicate that in contrast to reservation … wages, offered wages decline considerably with duration of unemployment. This is the main reason that ratios of reservation … wages to offered wages increase rapidly with duration of unemployment; on average, reservation wages begin to exceed offered …

by comparing the future situation of ("treated") unemployed entering into FTCs after a particular unemployment duration … employment and unemployment. The empirical analysis is based on propensity score matching methods, obtaining the effects of FTCs … persons entering into FTCs after a certain number of month of unemployment are reasonable. A first counterfactual is never to …

unemployment and estimate multivariate duration models. While we do not find any significant impact on the job finding probability … analyze the unemployment dynamics of job seekers with and without marginal employment, we consider an inflow sample into … probability of marginal employment at the beginning of the unemployment spell and an increased job finding probability for the …

There are few studies on unemployment duration in developing countries. This is the first study on duration aspect of … parametric estimation methods are used, controlling for the unobserved heterogeneity. Two alternative definitions of unemployment … effect of the local unemployment rate is large and negative. Duration dependence of the exit rate from unemployment is …

On the basis of aggregate data for the early nineties, we analyse the determinants of unemployment duration for laid … Proportional Hazard specification can be too restrictive, leading to an overstatement of the extent of true negative duration … dependence. We conclude that negative duration dependence is largely spurious. We also decompose the time variation of the hazard …