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

reservation wages to decrease. The rate at which job offers arrive is constant over the unemployment duration. These findings … these transitions allows the identification of duration dependence in the job offer arrival rate and the wage offer … likelihood. The results show that the presence of significant negative duration dependence in the wage offer distribution causes …

outcomes tend to be more favourable to unions when the national unemployment rate is lower. …

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 …

This paper proposes a new econometric estimation method for analyzing the probability of leaving unemployment using … unemployment between the 1980s and 1990s during a period of labor market reform. We find that the relative probability of leaving … unemployment for the short-term unemployed compared to the long-term unemployed becomes significantly higher in the 1990s. …

Individual labour market transitions from unemployment into temporary work are often succeeded by a transition from …-state duration model, applying the ?timing of events? approach. To deal with selectivity, the model incorporates transitions from … unemployment to temporary jobs and unobserved determinants of the transition rates. The data contain multiple spells in labour …

apprenticeship training have longer job durations. In contrast, the larger the number of unemployment and employment spells, the …

Diamond (1994) that an individual?s probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases … genuine duration dependence will be stronger the more depressed the labour market. In conflict with this prediction this study … provides persuasive empirical evidence that the pattern of negative genuine duration dependence does not change over the …

This study examines individuals? unemployment experiences from the age of 18 up to the age of 35 using a large panel of … administrative records on unemployment related benefit claims of men in the United Kingdom over the past two decades. The main focus … is on the extent to which individuals? unemployment experiences are affected by regional and skill differences, i …