After a decade of structural reforms, unemployment rates have tripled in Argentina. This paper is concerned with the … measurement of unemployment risk and its distribution. We show the importance of considering re-incidence in the measurement of … unemployment risk and develop a methodolgy to do that. Our estimates for Argentina show that, though the typical unemployment spell …

After a decade of structural reforms, unemployment rates have tripled in Argentina. This paper is concerned with the … measurement of unemployment risk and its distribution. We show the importance of considering re-incidence in the measurement of … unemployment risk and develop a methodolgy to do that. Our estimates for Argentina show that, though the typical unemployment spell …

Many empirical studies have confirmed the theoretical prediction that longer-term Unemployment Insurance (UI …) entitlement leads to longer unemployment duration. Most of those studies have examined special programs that provide extra weeks … of unemployment benefits when unemployment rates in the region are higher. Hence, they must distinguish if the longer …

administrative longitudinal databases. Non-employment includes the discouraged unemployed not entitled to draw unemployment benefits …

administrative longitudinal databases. Non-employment includes the discouraged unemployed not entitled to draw unemployment benefits …

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

We study the macroeconomic effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit extensions in the United States at short and … when initial durations are shorter have substantial effects on the unemployment rate and the number of people receiving UI …

overly long unemployment durations. We examine the infuence of previous wages on unemployment durations for workers after … parts of workers' wages. If workers can only imperfectly observe the extent of firm rents in their wages, they might be … exogenous lay-offs and, using Austrian administrative data, we find that younger workers are, in fact, unemployed longer if they …

home. I analyze the relationship between such house lock and the elevated levels and persistence of unemployment during the … job search in the local labor market for homeowners whose home value has declined, I focus on differences in unemployment … that enables the estimation of individual and aggregate covariate effects on completed unemployment durations in synthetic …

overly long unemployment durations. We examine the infuence of previous wages on unemployment durations for workers after … parts of workers' wages. If workers can only imperfectly observe the extent of firm rents in their wages, they might be … exogenous lay-offs and, using Austrian administrative data, we find that younger workers are, in fact, unemployed longer if they …