duration of apprenticeships, compatible with increased human capital accumulation probably due to the training provisions of …

This paper studies a program that extends the maximum duration of unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to 209 weeks … regions to identify the effect of extended benefits on unemployment duration. Results indicate that the duration of job search … is prolonged by at least .09 weeks per additional week of benefits among men, whereas unemployment duration increases by …

for just a few, often only one to three, years. In this paper, I examine empirically the duration in German import trade … characteristics, product type and market structure. Specifically, I show that the duration of exporting a product to Germany is longer …

We identify the causal effect of lump-sum severance payments on non-employment duration in Norway by exploiting a …

We study the optimal duration of contracts in a principal-agent framework with both moral hazard and adverse selection …

This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …