When mobility between locations is frictional, a person's economic well-being is partially determined by her place of … birth. Using a life cycle model of mobility, we find that search frictions are the main impairment to the mobility of young …, lower average wages, and fewer possibilities for geographic mobility all contribute to these welfare losses. Paying …

the hypothesis of positive duration dependence at the beginning of the transition and slightly negative thereafter … shortening the transition. Originality: Despite the duration of the STWT is one of the most important indicators to measure the …-linear duration dependence. Furthermore, they extend the analysis by including student-workers who attended a vocational path of …

both unemployment and employment duration. Our analysis uses a rich administrative longitudinal data set for Germany where … unemployment. Long-term training schemes increase the average duration of employment spells more strongly than short-term training …. However, they increase the expected unemployment duration if they are started early during unemployment. This negative short …

This paper studies how changes in extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefit affect the duration of unemployment. We … separation from the previous job in the Japanese UI system which determines a worker's maximum potential UI benefit duration at … not lead to a decrease in the jobless hazard; the duration of unemployment is not prolonged among jobseekers who have …

-unemployment outcomes like wages and job mobility, and survey data on measures of search behavior. As such we are the first to study …

show a negative relationship between unemployment duration and the subsequent job duration. Restricting the sample to job … even greater negative effect of unemployment duration on the following job duration. The importance lies not only in the … duration of unemployment. If job seekers keep a high reservation wage and a low search intensity because of the benefits of …

focus is to explore how the conditions in the pre-displacement firm affect the duration of unemployment. The empirical … of employment and the duration of the previous employment match are established to be important determinants for the time … and in particular by the conditions in the firms in which they were previously employed. -- unemployment duration …

duration in Germany paired with individual-level data on job search behavior to directly investigate this assumed relationship … the benefit scheme: the extension of the benefit duration caused job search effort to significantly decrease, lowering the … duration: a 10 percent increase in the number of filed job applications is found to increase the short-run job …