Using the data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) between 1996 and 2013, the paper empirically estimates the effect of duration of unemployment on reemployment wages for workers 40 years of age and older and decomposes the given effect into the stigma and skill...

Using the data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) between 1996 and 2013, the effects of unemployment duration on the re-employment wages for workers 40 years of age and older are empirically estimated using a quasi-structural model. The findings indicate that the...