In this paper we use Portuguese data on individual (multiple) unemployment spells and apply semi-parametric duration … persons with muscular, skeletal, geriatric and sensorial problems experience the longest unemployment spells. Organic (blind … probability of leaving unemployment into employment. Negative duration dependence and unobserved heterogeneity are also found in …

unemployment into either new job or recall. The recall probability is allowed to affect the search intensity for new jobs …

care system on unemployment durations. We estimate that for around 25% of unemployed workers, removing the channel that … enables strategic sick reporting reduces the mean unemployment duration by 4 days. …

approach provides accurate effect estimates, especially if time-varying variation in the unemployment rate of the local labor …

approach provides accurate effect estimates, especially if time-varying variation in the unemployment rate of the local labor …

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante threat of sanctions. Based on a large inflow sample into unemployment … unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We estimate multispell …

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … relative attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness …

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 …

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 …