This paper uses longitudinal survey data to assess factors affecting the duration of unemployment in Russia. We examine … remarkably similar across the different unemployment definitions and model specifications. Therefore, despite the formidable …

becoming junior medical specialist. To deal with selectivity, we simultaneously model the transitions from unemployment to … trainee, from unemployment to medical assistant, from medical assistant to trainee and from medical assistant to unemployment …

cornerstone of labor market policy. We analyze causal effects on the individual transition rate from unemployment to employment by …-parametric identification. The data cover the population and include multiple unemployment spells for many individuals. The results indicate a … diminishes after some weeks. When taking account of the time spent in the program, the effect on the mean unemployment duration …

This paper investigates the degree to which the individual exit rate out of unemployment for young job seekers changes … as a function of the elapsed unemployment duration. We use a nonparametric estimation method for population data on …