This Paper presents new evidence on the determinants of unemployment duration for men and women in Britain in the 1990s … inactivity. The data show that the median duration of unemployment spells among men, at 5 months, is almost double that for women … analysis suggests that policies to reduce unemployment duration and encourage full-time work, especially among men, should be …

survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that …

arrival rate of job offers is exactly the same after two years of unemployment than at the beginning of the spell. Duration … unemployment, of different reforms of the unemployment compensation system. The expected duration of unemployment goes from 14 … the subset of former high-wage workers, whose unemployment duration is raised by 3.92 months (+24.48%). Compared with …

aggregate unemployment duration data, in which we allow for unobserved heterogeneity and correlated measurement errors. We do …This paper examines the relation between individual unemployment durations and incidence on the one hand, and the time … currently unemployed. We also allow for the composition of the inflow into unemployment to depend on calendar time at the moment …

Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search …-2004. We estimate duration models dealing with selection on unobservables. We use weighted exogenous sampling maximum …

labour market states: self-employment, employment, and unemployment. This enables us to assess the effects of changes in … unobservable individual heterogeneity, duration dependence, lagged duration dependence and state dependence. Three main results are … obtained. First, the aggregated unemployment rate is found to have a positive effect on the probability of becoming self …

labour market institutions (e.g. unemployment benefits, job security legislation and payroll taxes) have complementary … effects on unemployment; and thus (b) that policies aimed at reforming these institutions are also complementary. These policy …) is unlikely to achieve significant reductions in unemployment. Rather, labour market reform becomes particularly …

of different job search methods, conditional unemployment benefit hikes can improve welfare when individuals are risk …