Social surveys are often used to estimate unemployment duration distributions. Survey nonresponse may then cause a bias … of the same workers. The latter provide information on unemployment durations and personal characteristics of all survey … respondents and non-respondents. We develop a method to empirically distinguish between two explanations for a bias in results …

The rate at which workers switch employers without experiencing a spell of unemployment is one of the most important … data. The bias is procyclical and is reduced by more than 10% in recessions. We propose an algorithm that uses earnings and …

negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …

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 …

, and the duration of unemployment among young women rose in California compared to states that did not adopt paid family … leave. The latter two findings regarding higher young women's unemployment and unemployment duration are unanticipated … participation and unemployment. CPFL enables workers to take at most six weeks of paid leave over a 12 month period in order to bond …

This paper examines the impact of housing tenure choice on unemployment duration in Belgium using EU‐SILC micro data … simultaneously estimate unemployment duration by a mixed proportional hazard model, and the probability of being an outright … the causal influence of different types of housing tenure on unemployment duration, we use instrumental variables. Our …

This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high … to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported reservation wages decline at a modest rate over the spell of unemployment, with … point estimates ranging from 0.05 to 0.14 percent per week of unemployment. The decline in reservation wages is driven …

sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We …Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … estimate multi-spell duration models with selection on unobserved characteristics. We find that a vacancy referral increases …

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 … additional active labor market policy measures. The estimated effect of the reform on the survival function of the duration of …

job. This paper uses an administrative dataset from the Slovak Republic on durations of individual unemployment spells …. The focus of the analysis is temporary subsidized jobs. By exploiting the variation in the duration of these jobs it is …