enables strategic sick reporting reduces the mean unemployment duration by 4 days. … care system on unemployment durations. We estimate that for around 25% of unemployed workers, removing the channel that …

Using a proportional hazard model with multiple exits, this paper analyzes whether immigrants' unemployment spells … data set taken from the Swedish unemployment registers is used. The data set covers the period 1991 to 1996, a period of … substantial increases in both unemployment rates as well as in immigration. The estimates from the hazard model suggests that a …

The relationship between unemployment benefit duration, unemployment duration and subsequent job duration is … be correlated with unemployment duration as well as accepted job duration. I examine two potential explanations for the … is also found to explain the correlation between unemployment and job duration. Various simulations indicate that …

Using data from the CPS this paper examines the role of birth-country networks on immigrants' unemployment duration … from 2001 to 2013. We find that networks significantly lower unemployment duration for all immigrants. Varying the effect … of networks over duration categories we find that networks are more effective in lowering duration for immigrants …

This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with two destination … unlucky draws that yields a non-proper duration distribution; and a split-population model in which the decision by some … unemployment. Although we do not reject the null of proportionality, abandoning the proportionality assumption does not materially …

job finding networks. Using matched employer-employee data from Hungary, this paper relates the unemployment duration of …

heterogeneity into account. Our results indicate that participation in JCS increases the unemployment duration mainly due to …-of-events approach, we estimate multivariate discrete time duration models taking selection based on both observed and unobserved … participants leave unemployment quicker than other groups, which results in highly skilled women benefiting from participation …

a multivariate duration model. Our findings show that the exit rate to full-time work declines when working part time …

This paper examines the effects of unemployment benefit duration in Finland. To overcome the problem that the maximum … period, potential benefit duration at the beginning of unemployment spells varies across individuals because only those with … we estimate that one extra week of benefits increases expected unemployment duration by 0.15 weeks, which corresponds to …