This paper investigates Young workers transition from unemployment to first job. Evidence indicates that the probability of getting a job is lower for youths who have never worked before, even when they are compared to those youths with previous labor market experience. Also, time to first job...

This paper analyzes the unemployment duration in Brazil between 2012 and 2017, comparing two very different points in time. There was substantial disparity in labor market conditions over the period investigated. The period 2012-2013 had low unemployment rates, whereas the unemployment rate...

This paper investigates Young workers transition from unemployment to first job. Evidence indicates that the probability of getting a job is lower for youths who have never worked before, even when they are compared to those youths with previous labor market experience. Also, time to first job...

This paper analyzes the unemployment duration in Brazil between 2012 and 2017, comparing two very different points in time. There was substantial disparity in labor market conditions over the period investigated. The period 2012-2013 had low unemployment rates, whereas the unemployment rate...

This work has as its objective to estimate the expected unemployment duration and to verify the reason for which the individual has difficulty of finding a new job in metropolitan Brazil in the year of 1999. For this purpose, we use the micro data’s of the Monthly Employment Survey (PME). The...