role for the cyclicality of the unemployment outflow rate, although the contribution of the duration of unemployment is … significant. In contrast, composition effects dampen the cyclicality of the unemployment inflow rate considerably. We further … observe that the initially positive contribution of composition effects to a higher unemployment outflow rate turns negative …

negative duration dependence of exit rates from unemployment. Our model has a number of novel testable implications. For …

Although it is now widely-accepted that unemployment is associated with sharply lower levels of individual well …-being, relatively little is known about how this effect depends on unemployment duration. Data from three large-scale European panels is … used to shed light on this issue; these data allow us to distinguish habituation to unemployment from sample selection. The …