This paper examines whether or not a prolonged unemployment period can raise the quality of job matching after … unemployment. We focus on job tenure as an indicator of a good quality job match after unemployment. We match two sets of Japanese … administrative data compiled by the public employment security offices: one includes information about the circumstances of job …

duration and outcome of job search in Norway. We use a comprehensive simultaneous equations model accounting for i) the … associated with the first job. We find that time invested in job search pays off in form of higher earnings once a job match is … formed. ALMP raises the probability of eventually finding a job as well as expected earnings, but at the cost of lengthening …