particularly strong in the first year of the spell. Moreover, slight negative duration dependence is found, especially for stable …

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 …

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 …