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 …

of a recession, which increased the maximum duration of FTCs from three to four and a half years. Our analysis is based …

role for the cyclicality of the unemployment outflow rate, although the contribution of the duration of unemployment is …

On the basis of aggregate data for the early nineties, we analyse the determinants of unemployment duration for laid … Proportional Hazard specification can be too restrictive, leading to an overstatement of the extent of true negative duration … dependence. We conclude that negative duration dependence is largely spurious. We also decompose the time variation of the hazard …

Using panel data for non-OECD countries covering the period 1970-2012, this paper analyzes the impact of the duration …