Social surveys are often used to estimate unemployment duration distributions. Survey non-response may then cause a … records of the same workers. The latter provide information on unemployment durations and personal characteristics of all … results based on only survey data: (1) selectivity due to related unobserved determinants of unemployment durations and non …

Individual labour market transitions from unemployment into temporary work are often succeeded by a transition from … unemployment to temporary jobs and unobserved determinants of the transition rates. The data contain multiple spells in labour … unemployment and they substantially increase the fraction of unemployed workers who have regular work within a few years after …

market policy. We analyze its causal effects on the individual transition rate from unemployment to employment by exploiting …-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 …