these transitions allows the identification of duration dependence in the job offer arrival rate and the wage offer … likelihood. The results show that the presence of significant negative duration dependence in the wage offer distribution causes … reservation wages to decrease. The rate at which job offers arrive is constant over the unemployment duration. These findings …

"This paper studies the effect of unemployment benefits on the unemployment and subsequent employment duration using … individual data from the European Community Household Panel, for France, Germany, and the UK. The empirical analysis is based on … a two-state mixed proportional hazard model allowing for flexible duration dependence and state specific unobserved …

This study compares the duration of new job matches in the east and west German labour market that formed between the … start of the German Economic, Monetary and Social Union in July 1990 and December 2000. The study relies on job duration … data drawn from the German Socio-economic Panel. It shows with non-parametric duration methods that job matches are less …