certain state (e.g. unemployment) to be eligible for a treatment, treatments may commence at different points in time, and the … earnings in subsequent employment. Any evaluation needs to take into account that some of those who are not trained at a … certain time in unemployment will leave unemployment before training while others will be trained later. We are interested in …

covariates are key confounders to be included in selection models. The joint inclusion of specific short-term employment history … indicators (notably, the share of time spent in employment), together with baseline socio-economic characteristics, regional and … approach provides accurate effect estimates, especially if time-varying variation in the unemployment rate of the local labor …

abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … unemployment duration is positive and significant. Neglecting selectivity leads to an underestimation of the effects in absolute …

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … relative attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness …

This paper provides a structural analysis of the role of job vacancy referrals (VRs) by public employment agencies in … care system on unemployment durations. We estimate that for around 25% of unemployed workers, removing the channel that … enables strategic sick reporting reduces the mean unemployment duration by 4 days. …

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 …