duration is associated with substantially higher quarterly rates of job finding in the range 53 to 106 percent. -- Unemployment … benefits ; unemployment duration ; job search …

Using Portuguese data, this paper investigates the effects of job search methods on escape rates from unemployment and …

This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with two destination … states, namely, inactivity and employment. The major innovation is our recognition of defective risks. We first use a … unemployment. Although we do not reject the null of proportionality, abandoning the proportionality assumption does not materially …