respect to a one percentage point increase in the ratio of immigrants over native workers. While many studies in our sample …

work from unemployment insu rance, we do not find that the weighting method outperforms Cox survivor function predictions. …

We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from … unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the … total inflow into unemployment. We estimate the model using (micro) survey data and (macro) administrative data from France …

transition out of unemployment. We show that rationing of the demand for training increases theunemployment duration of non …

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 …