the program. The literature uses linear probability models and (Cox) proportional hazard models to predict duration … outcomes. These either focus on one threshold duration or impose proportionality. In this paper we propose a nonparametric … 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 … differences between the micro and macro unemployment definitions. The results also show to what extent the unemployment duration … unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the …

unemployment, household care and disability to employment. Then we decompose the differences in expected duration between the … rate models that account for both the stock-sampling and the possible maximum duration for the transitions from …

limited supply. During the search for aposition as trainee (or "junior medical specialist"), they may accept atemporary job as … becoming juniormedical specialist. To deal with selectivity, we simultaneously model thetransitions from unemployment to … trainee, from unemployment to medicalassistant, from medical asistant to trainee and from medical assistant tounemployment. We …

selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …

applied to the multiple non-employment spells of 2066 newentrants. The estimated lagged duration dependence function rises for …

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

focus of research was on the duration of unemployment. In later studies the cyclicality of incidence and duration …, compositional effects and duration dependence of the exit rate out of unemployment have been investigated. Unlike the partial … cyclical fluctuations in unemployment are driven by variations in the incidence, individual exit probabilities and the …

causal relationship from homeownership to unemployment. The literature confirms a decreasing effect of homeownership on … geographical mobility of workers, but does not in general confirm that homeowners have longer unemployment spells or higher … unemployment rates. Even though this finding is related to heterogeneity in the labour force and associated selectivity effects …

We test whether different empirical methods give different results when evaluating job-search assistance programs …. Budgetary problems at the Dutch unemployment insurance (UI) administration in March 2010, caused a sharp drop in the …