This paper analyses job seekers' perceptions and their relationship to unemployment outcomes to study heterogeneity and … finding rates, accounting for almost all of the observed decline in job finding rates over the spell of unemployment. Moreover … unemployment. The biases can explain more than 10 percent of the incidence of long-term unemployment …

In this paper, we review the literature on the "spike" in unemployment exit rates around benefit exhaustion, and … unemployment spells are measured has a large effect on the magnitude of the spike at exhaustion, both in existing studies and in … defined by the time spent on the unemployment system. In Austria, the exit rate from registered unemployment rises by over 200 …

Using data from a social experiment, we estimate the impact of training on the duration of employment and unemployment … unemployment spells lead to biased estimates of the effects of training. We present and implement several econometric approaches … unemployment spells …

equivalent workers fall sharply as unemployment duration progresses. We use the model to quantitatively assess the consequences … of such employer behavior for job finding rates and long term unemployment and find only modest effects given the large … dependence and long term unemployment …

sharp increase in the incidence of long-term unemployment (LTU) during the Great Recession. We first show that compositional … shifts in demographics, occupation, industry, region, and the reason for unemployment jointly account for very little of the … model that allows for duration dependence in the exit rate from unemployment and for transitions between employment (E …

accessibility to appropriate jobs should shorten the duration of unemployment. We focus on lower-income workers with strong labor …

This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high … to 24 weeks, we find that self-reported reservation wages decline at a modest rate over the spell of unemployment, with … point estimates ranging from 0.05 to 0.14 percent per week of unemployment. The decline in reservation wages is driven …

insight into the problem by examining the determinants of transitions between non-employment (or unemployment) and employment …

Most data used to study the durations of unemployment spells come from the Current Population Survey, which is a point … unemployment spells obtained from panel data and apply CPS sampling and reporting techniques to replicate the type of data used by … distribution. We conclude that the best inferences that can be made about unemployment durations using CPS-like data are seriously …