duration until treatment and the counterfactual durations until exit. To illustrate the approach, the paper studies the effect … duration. The contamination of the standard matching estimator due to later entries into treatment is large if the treatment … probability is high. -- Treatment ; program participation ; unemployment duration ; training ; propensity score ; matching …

of this approach in our con-text by studying the enrollment process. We develop a model allowing for duration dependence … and unobserved heterogeneity (leading to spurious duration dependence) in the treatment effect itself, and we prove non … diminishes after some weeks. When taking account of the time spent in the program, the effect on the mean unemployment duration …

sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … estimate multi-spell duration models with selection on unobserved characteristics. We find that a vacancy referral increases …

We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from … differences between the micro and macro unemployment definitions. The results also show to what extent the unemployment duration …