<Para ID="Par1">This paper examines the impact of housing tenure choice on unemployment duration in Belgium using EU …. Accounting for tenure endogeneity and unobserved heterogeneity, we find that homeowners with a mortgage exit unemployment first …

ratios, and hence, on duration of unemployment. We obtain empirical support for gender and educational differentials in … unemployment duration: women tend to stay longer in the pool, and there are gender asymmetries in the influence of employment … history on unemployment duration; those with junior professional education have significantly higher exit rates from …

, both retirement and unemployment emerge as important determinants of return migration choices. Unemployment spell length … determines the direction of selection with respect to unemployment in return migration. The data also reveal that the level of …