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"This paper investigates how founders' experience and professional background affect the duration of periods of self-employment, and to what extent the duration is affected by a balanced skill set in particular. In this context, an occupational choice framework based on a competing risk setting...
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Although it is a common theoretical assumption that the chances to find a job fall with time in unmeployment, this is not systematically confirmed by empirical evidence, and there is no evidence for developing countries.  We develop a farmework that allows us to test the four major explanations...
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According to the common definition of unemployment, the unemployed are those who are not in paid employment or self …
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We propose a new econometric estimation method for analyzing the probability of leaving unemployment using uncompleted … unemployment between the 1980s and 1990s during a period of labor market reform. We found that the relative probability of leaving … unemployment of the short-term unemployed versus the long-term unemployed becomes significantly higher in the 1990s. …
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unemployment benefits, the existence of Active Labour Market Policies, the change in labour demand, segmentation of the labour … market, and unemployment as a queuing phenomenon. We test each of these explanations and find that labour market segmentation …
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The paper focuses on the dynamics of unemployment in the Czech Republic over the period 1992-–2007. Unemployment … dynamics are elaborated in terms of unemployment inflows and unemployment duration. The paper contributes to the literature … dealing with discrete time models of aggregate unemployment duration data by accounting for time aggregation bias. Another …
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selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …
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There are large spatial disparities in unemployment durations across the 1,300 municipalities in the Ile … municipality on an exhaustive dataset of all unemployment spells starting in the first semester of 1996. This model allows us to …
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This paper proposes a new econometric estimation method for analyzing the probability of leaving unemployment using … unemployment between the 1980s and 1990s during a period of labor market reform. We find that the relative probability of leaving … unemployment for the short-term unemployed compared to the long-term unemployed becomes significantly higher in the 1990s. …
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This paper uses an administrative dataset to analyze to what extent active labor market policies in the Slovak Republic have been beneficial for unemployed workers. The focus is on two types of temporary subsidized jobs and on training. Short-term subsidized jobs seem to be the most efficient...
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