This paper examines whether or not a prolonged unemployment period can raise the quality of job matching after … unemployment. We focus on job tenure as an indicator of a good quality job match after unemployment. We match two sets of Japanese … seekers receiving unemployment insurance, and the other includes information about job seekers applying for jobs.We first show …

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 …

Recent evidence from large-scale field experiments has shown that employers use job candidates' unemployment duration … unemployment durations. In addition, these participants rate the job candidates on statements central to four theoretical … mechanisms often related to the scarring effect of unemployment: general signalling theory, (perceived) skill loss, queuing …

This paper studies how changes in extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefit affect the duration of unemployment. We … range of 44-46 who entered unemployment in the same month in the same year, we find that longer maximum benefit durations do … not lead to a decrease in the jobless hazard; the duration of unemployment is not prolonged among jobseekers who have …