entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite … the disincentive effect of UI on unemployment duration, UI benefit generosity may also increase job match quality by … benefit duration on unemployment duration and post-unemployment outcomes. We find a spike in the re-employment hazard for the …

matching frictions and average unemployment duration. …This paper analyses the impact of matching frictions in the Portuguese labour market on individual unemployment hazard … rates and unemployment durations. The coexistence of permanent contracts and temporary contracts in the Portuguese (dual …

The job finding rate declines with the duration of unemployment. While this is a well established fact, the reasons are …" duration dependence, while the remaining 45 percent is due to dynamic selection of the unemployment pool. We also discuss … further drivers of the observed duration patterns, such as human capital depreciation, stock-flow matching, depletion of one …