causal relationship from homeownership to unemployment. The literature confirms a decreasing effect of homeownership on … geographical mobility of workers, but does not in general confirm that homeowners have longer unemployment spells or higher … unemployment rates. Even though this finding is related to heterogeneity in the labour force and associated selectivity effects …

negative duration dependence of exit rates from unemployment. Our model has a number of novel testable implications. For … instance, we show that a higher connectivity among unemployed individuals reduces duration dependence and that exit rates … depend positively on the duration of the last job held by the unemployed worker …

applicants’ level of education and the duration and timing of the unemployment spell. We find unemployment scars of similar size … regaining employment; this is not the case in Norway. We contribute to the unemployment scarring literature and to comparative … unemployment spells when screening job applications. Our focus is on whether unemployment scarring varies depending on the …

We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in Missouri affected search behavior of … effect of maximum duration on UI and nonemployment spells of approximately 0.45 and 0.25 respectively. We use the RDD … estimates to simulate the unemployment rate assuming no market-level externalities. The simulated response, which implies almost …