This paper uses longitudinal survey data to assess factors affecting the duration of unemployment in Russia. We examine … remarkably similar across the different unemployment definitions and model specifications. Therefore, despite the formidable …

firms can explain the relatively high level of unemployment amongstlower educated workers and the relatively strong … level of education can notexplain the stronger cyclicality of the unemployment rate for lower educatedworkers. We conclude …

Social surveys are often used to estimate unemployment duration distributions. Survey non-response may then cause a … of the same workers. The latter provide information on durations of unemployment and personal characteristics of all … results based on only survey data: selectivity due to related unobserved determinants of durations of unemployment and non …

unemployment to employment using detailed Danish event history data obtained from administrative registers. We find large positive …