effort ; reservation wage ; locus of control ; unemployment duration …

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 …

We analyse the re-employment probabilities of almost 330,000 Spanish men aged 20-59 years who began a unemployment … insurance (UI) spell between February 1987 and November 1991 using data derived from the national unemployment benefit … administration database (SIPRE) and discrete time duration models with flexible baseline hazards. We show: (i) the level of UI …