. Although the U.S. case has been studied extensively, the importance of job finding and employment exit rates to unemployment …To better understand unemployment dynamics it is key to assess the role played by job creation and job destruction … finding and job separation rates for the U.S. unemployment rate dynamics. Drawing on this approach, we are able to reconcile …

involves conditioning elapsed duration on completed unemployment duration in the reservation wage equation. Our analysis … duration coefficient suggests that higher reservation wages negatively influence the probability of exiting unemployment …. -- reservation wages ; unemployment duration ; control function …

Using Portuguese data, this paper investigates the effects of job search methods on escape rates from unemployment and … periodicity of the resulting job match. Emphasis is accorded the role of the public employment service. Despite its frequency as a … search vehicle, the state employment agency is shown to have a low hit rate, and to lead to lower-paying, shorter …

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 …

Changes in the legislation in the mid-80s in Portugal provide remarkably good conditions for analysis of the employment … well as in new firms and those going out of business, using a count regression model applied to proportions. Employment … on youth employment without decomposing it by type of worker flow. …