Social surveys are often used to estimate unemployment duration distributions. Survey non-response may then cause a … bias. We study this using a unique dataset that combines survey information of individual workers with administrative … records of the same workers. The latter provide information on unemployment durations and personal characteristics of all …

sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We …Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … estimate multi-spell duration models with selection on unobserved characteristics. We find that a vacancy referral increases …

sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We …Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … estimate multi-spell duration models with selection on unobserved characteristics.We find that a vacancy referral increases the …

diminishes after some weeks. When taking account of the time spent in the program, the effect on the mean unemployment duration … cornerstone of labor market policy. We analyze causal effects on the individual transition rate from unemployment to employment by … appropriateness of this approach in our context by studying the assignment. We also develop a model allowing for duration dependence …

Individual labour market transitions from unemployment into temporary work are often succeeded by a transition from …-state duration model, applying the "timing of events" approach. To deal with selectivity, the model incorporates transitions from … unemployment to temporary jobs and unobserved determinants of the transition rates. The data contain multiple spells in labour …

In this paper we simultaneously analyze transitions from unemployment to employment and to nonparticipation. We … estimate a dependent competing risks model with nonparametric specifications of the destination-specific duration dependence … and unobserved heterogeneity terms. We use a unique population data set of French unemployment over the period 1988 …

abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … unemployment duration is positive and significant. Neglecting selectivity leads to an underestimation of the effects in absolute … additional active labor market policy measures. The estimated effect of the reform on the survival function of the duration of …

and seasonal effects. The model is estimated with aggregate unemployment duration data, in which we allow for unobserved …This paper examines the relation between individual unemployment durations and incidence on the one hand, and the time … of the inflow into unemployment to depend on calendar time. In both cases we distinguish between business cycle effects …

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 … unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the …

mean unemployment duration is close to zero … program is the most ambitious and expensive. We analyze its effect on the individual transition rate from unemployment to … training and exit to work. The approach involves the estimation of duration models, and it allows us to quantify the individual …