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 …

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 …

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 …

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

Existing estimates of the annual unemployment rate from 1870 to 1913 were constructed by the Board of Trade, initially … reconstruct sectoral unemployment rates based on union records and supplement this with (crude) estimates for certain other … deviation than the Board of Trade index. The wide swings in unemployment during the 1870s are confirmed but the amplitude of …

Standard search theory and some empirical evidence suggest that an unemployed individual's probability of entering … employment increases as they approach the time when unemployment benefits are due to expire. This pattern may not carry over to …. This paper examines movements out of unemployment using data on unemployed individuals in Sweden. A semi …

wages. We also find that spells of unemployment are long, but that re-employed workers suffer limited wage losses on re …

duration of unemployment and subsequent employment using German panel data and bivariate discrete time hazard rate models …Unemployment rates are often higher for migrants than for natives. This could result from longer periods of … unemployment as well as from shorter periods of employment. This paper jointly examines male native-migrant differences in the …

) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) – affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made … unemployment insurance more generous by changing, simultaneously, the maximum duration of regular unemployment benefits and the … the maximum duration of benefits. We use these results to split up the total costs to unemployment insurance funds into …