spells lengthen. Moreover, we also study the influence of this willingness on unemployment duration. The main results are: (i … negative duration dependence of the unemployment hazard rate is substantially reduced when unobserved heterogeneity is … qualification. We analyze which personal and economic characteristics determine this willingness and how it changes as unemployment …

This paper studies a structural model of labor market history in an environment with duration dependence. We treat the … agent's job search effort explicitly as part of the dynamic decision along with a binary employment choice. The optimal … differentiable nor concave, (2) the optimal search effort is decreasing in the realized unmeasured utility shocks, and (3) the labor …

new jobs. Workers’ chances for recall should influence their job search strategies, so the rates of exit from unemployment … by these two routes should be directly related. We solve a job search model to establish, in theory, a negative … new job hazard rates. -- Lay-off ; Recall ; Job search ; Hazard rate ; Proportional hazard model ; Unobserved …

We question whether the use of social networks to exit unemployment matters in Cameroon. We develop an empirical model … networks to get a job is effective and in average, around 48% of job seekers use this channel as a job search method. Moreover …

new jobs. Workers' chances for recall should influence their job search strategies, so the rates of exit from unemployment … by these two routes should be directly related. We solve a job search model to establish, in theory, a negative …

market programs (ALMP) - on the duration and outcome of job search and on the quality of a subsequent job. We find that time … expected unemployment duration, while improving the quality of the resultant job. Participation in ALMP raises the probability …We examine empirically the impacts of labor market policies - in terms of unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor …

workers and on their exit rate from unemployment. For that purpose, we specify a structural search model with fixed and … unemployment duration data. Our results show that the exit rate from unemployment increases with the arrival rate of job contacts …In this paper, we examine the disincentive effects of the public employment service on the search effort of unemployed …

workers and on their exit rate from unemployment. For that purpose, we specify a structural search model with fixed and … unemployment duration data. Our results show that the exit rate from unemployment increases with the arrival rate of job contacts …In this paper, we examine the disincentive effects of the public employment service on the search effort of unemployed …

, Germany, and the United Kingdom, we document striking similarities in spatial differences in unemployment, vacancies, job … separations and on-the-job search quantitatively accounts for all the documented empirical regularities. The model also … quantitatively rationalizes why differences in job-separation rates have primary importance in inducing differences in unemployment …

search theoretic model: as the standardization of an occupation increases or the diversity of tasks decreases, search costs … decrease and the optimal search intensity increases. However, the model reveals that higher search intensities can have …