We investigate why we observe non-negative duration dependence among young unemployed men in urban Ethiopia. Assuming … that genuine duration dependence is negative, there are five explanations for a non-decreasing hazard: the presence of … unemployment benefits, the existence of Active Labour Market Policies, the change in labour demand, segmentation of the labour …

both the vacancy- unemployment ratio and employment. We show that the standard version of the Mortensen-Pissarides matching … model fails to replicate this dynamic pattern due to the rapid responses of vacancies. We extend the model by introducing a … the matching model with sunk costs, vacancies react sluggishly to shocks, leading to highly realistic dynamics. …

incidence and duration and find that most variables have the same effect on both. Unemployment is concentrated among relatively … well-educated first time job seekers who come from the middle classes. Mean duration of unemployment is close to four years … Addis are less likely to become unemployed, and ethnicity has no effect. We find that both the incidence and duration of …

extended unemployment benefits. Using a competing risk duration model, this paper measures the size of the entitlement effect …Extended unemployment benefits programs in the US are triggered by the state insured unemployment rate while intrastate … job hazard, the entitlement effect is stronger in low unemployment labor markets. This finding is robust across a number …

being either in regular employment or registered unemployment. Our findings therefore do not lend support to the stepping …

measures the effect of the UI financing system on the duration of unemployment. Using duration data is essential since tax … charges to the firm vary over the duration of unemployment spells. Empirical results based on data with various sources of … variation suggest that higher layoff tax costs shorten the duration of recall unemployment. …

variables This is accomplished by using a model that transforms the duration such that for the population parameters, this … transformed duration is independent of the instrument. The estimator is used to re-analyse data from the Illinois reemploymnet …

the duration of unemployment spells. The data basis used in this study is the German Socio-Economic- Panel (GSOEP) for … measures. Our main results show that training does have a significant short term effect of reducing unemploy-ment duration but …We estimate a semiparametric single-risk discrete-time duration model to assess the effect of vocational training on …

unemployment, undue instability, and excess debt. …

effects. They strengthen labor supply both in terms of job search intensity, leading to lower unemployment rates, and hours …. The analysis is based on a computable overlapping generations model with life-cycle labor supply, savings, and search … unemployment. The public sector is decomposed into general government and an unfunded pension system with a tax benefit linkage …