In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on …-varying labor market institutions. While the positive effect of severance pay on unemployment garners some support, there is no real …

of time-varying policy and institutional regressors. Yet another is our examination of unemployment and participation … lower participation, even if the unemployment effects are muted. Although we report some similar findings to Neumark and …

involves conditioning elapsed duration on completed unemployment duration in the reservation wage equation. Our analysis … duration coefficient suggests that higher reservation wages negatively influence the probability of exiting unemployment …. -- reservation wages ; unemployment duration ; control function …

us to assess the effect of job search methods on escape rates from unemployment and, in a new departure, the impact of …

Using Portuguese data, this paper investigates the effects of job search methods on escape rates from unemployment and …

This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with two destination … confirms our earlier findings but offers a more convincing explanation for positive and zero transition rates out of … unemployment. Although we do not reject the null of proportionality, abandoning the proportionality assumption does not materially …

This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with two destination … confirms our earlier findings but offers a more convincing explanation for positive and zero transition rates out of … unemployment. Although we do not reject the null of proportionality, abandoning the proportionality assumption does not materially …

Using Portuguese data, this paper investigates the effects of job search methods on escape rates from unemployment and …