an expected long period of unemployment make a job more valuable during recessions. I estimate the elasticity of the …

labor market and examines the implications of joint household decision-making for cyclical fluctuations in the unemployment …, and find that joint household decision-making contributes to the counter-cyclicality of women’s unemployment rate, but not …

Young adults entering the labor force typically have little access to unemployment insurance or other formal insurance …

The relationship between unemployment benefit duration, unemployment duration and subsequent job duration is … be correlated with unemployment duration as well as accepted job duration. I examine two potential explanations for the … relationship between unemployment and job spell durations; UI benefits increase job matching quality vs unobserved heterogeneity. I …

change in SWB predicts job search and unemployment duration. The findings suggest that those who report feeling hurt by … unemployment have shorter unemployment durations. Men who report a loss of SWB are also more likely to look for a job, but women …: search effort and unemployment duration are affected by the utility differential between having a job and being unemployed. …

unemployment into either new job or recall. The recall probability is allowed to affect the search intensity for new jobs. …

Using Portuguese data, this paper investigates the effects of job search methods on escape rates from unemployment and …

This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with two destination … unemployment. Although we do not reject the null of proportionality, abandoning the proportionality assumption does not materially …

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …