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 …

negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …

Survey data from urban China in 2002 show levels of life satisfaction to be low, but not exceptionally so, by … international comparison. Many of the determinants of life satisfaction in urban China appear comparable to those for people in … other countries. These include, inter alia, unemployment, income, marriage, sex, health and age. Communist Party membership …

unemployment effects. …

show that roughly 50% of the observed raw differential in individual dismissal rates can be explained by the estimated …

outcomes tend to be more favourable to unions when the national unemployment rate is lower. …

the stock-sampling and the possible maximum duration for the transitions from unemployment, household care and disability … to employment. Then we decompose the difference in expected duration between the immigrant groups and the Dutch into the …