Most data used to study the durations of unemployment spells come from the Current Population Survey, which is a point …-in-time survey and gives an incomplete picture of the underlying duration distribution. We introduce a new sample of completed … unemployment spells obtained from panel data and apply CPS sampling and reporting techniques to replicate the type of data used by …

period 1925-99.Our overall conclusions are surprisingly consistent across sources and eras, that the CPI bias was roughly -1 … our view substantially narrows the range of possibilities regarding the history of CPI bias for rental shelter over the …

We review theories of race discrimination in the labor market. Taste-based models can generate wage and unemployment … duration differentials when combined with either random or directed search even when strong prejudice is not widespread, but no … existing model explains the unemployment rate differential. Models of statistical discrimination based on differential …

unemployment insurance benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, where the benefit schedule has kinks at the minimum and … institutional settings where a policy variable (such as weekly unemployment benefits) is determined by an observed but potentially …

that employer screening plays an important role in generating duration dependence; employers use the unemployment spell …This paper studies the role of employer behavior in generating "negative duration dependence" -- the adverse effect of … a longer unemployment spell -- by sending fictitious resumes to real job postings in 100 U.S. cities. Our results …

unemployment exit rate and a small increase in the expected duration of unemployment. The effects on exits and duration are …In response to the Great Recession, the availability of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits was extended to an … individual exit from unemployment, and we compare the estimated impact with that for the prior extension of benefits during the …

) extensions can be used as instrumental variables (IV) for unemployment duration. Using a regression discontinuity design, the … substantial negative effects of unemployment duration on wages of 0.8% per month …This paper provides quasi-experimental estimates of the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Using …

is imputed using existing labor supply elasticities, and variations in unemployment insurance laws are used to estimate …