in models by analysing the measurement of duration dependence of unemployment. Since search theory can’t be made … operational for this purpose duration models which model of the outflow process of unemployment with a Weibull function are taken … principle to make a measure of the elasticity of response between unemployment benefit and duration of unemployment. It enables …

The establishment of appropriate policy measures for fighting unemployment has always been difficult since causes of … unemployment are hard to identify. This paper analyses an approach used mainly in the 1960s and 1970s in economics, in which … classification is used as a way to deal with such a complex, multiple causal phenomenon like unemployment. The method is based on …

Social surveys are often used to estimate unemployment duration distributions. Survey non-response may then cause a … of the same workers. The latter provide information on durations of unemployment and personal characteristics of all … results based on only survey data: selectivity due to related unobserved determinants of durations of unemployment and non …

changing local labour market conditions. For many countries and periods, an inverse relationship between wages and unemployment … due to the use of aggregate unemployment rates and other labour market characteristics for groups. A maximum likelihood …

We analyse the determinants of unemployment persistence in four OECDcountries byestimating a structural Bayesian VAR … with an informative priorbased on an insiders/outsiders model. We explicitly insert unemployment ben-efits and labour taxes … shocks play adominant role in explaining unemployment also in the medium-run. Moreoverreal wages have low sensitivity to …