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 …

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

unemployment to employment using detailed Danish event history data obtained from administrative registers. We find large positive …

extensions across states to estimate the overall impact of these extensions on unemployment duration, comparing the experience … extensions on unemployment transitions and duration. We rely on individual variation in benefit availability based on the … duration of unemployment spells and the length of UI benefits available in the state and month, conditional on state economic …

) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) – affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made … unemployment insurance more generous by changing, simultaneously, the maximum duration of regular unemployment benefits and the … the maximum duration of benefits. We use these results to split up the total costs to unemployment insurance funds into …

role for the cyclicality of the unemployment outflow rate, although the contribution of the duration of unemployment is … significant. In contrast, composition effects dampen the cyclicality of the unemployment inflow rate considerably. We further … observe that the initially positive contribution of composition effects to a higher unemployment outflow rate turns negative …

We estimate the effect of a shortening of unemployment benefit entitlements on unemployment duration. Previous studies … on the same or related problems have not taken into account that the competing risks duration model is not identified and … suggest an assumption on the dependence structure between risks which is milder than what conventional duration models assume …

benefits entitlement period. The results point towards a hump-shape response of unemployment duration over the one-year pre-unemployment … extended unemployment benefits. Our empirical exercise explores a quasi-experimental setting generated by an increase in the … interquartile range. This behavior of job searchers is consistent with labor supply models with unemployment insurance and savings …

on the effect of rent control on the length of individual unemployment duration. Theoretically, the effect is ambiguous …

This paper investigates the effects of home-ownership on labour mobility and unemployment duration. We distinguish … between home-ownership and unemployment duration. Our empirical findings thus lend some support for the main mechanism behind … the so-called Oswald hypothesis, even if it does not find positive correlation between unemployment duration and home …