interview, exit rates, and reemployment wages over unemployment duration. We build a directed search model with symmetric … past makes expected productivity fall with unemployment duration, which induces firms to rank applicants by duration. The … callback and exit rates both fall with duration. Furthermore, we conduct a numerical exercise to show that our model can …

by comparing the future situation of ("treated") unemployed entering into FTCs after a particular unemployment duration … duration on the selection into the type of contract. Further insights are gained by comparing the determinants of the …