This paper investigates the impact of individual heterogeneity and regional influences on unemployment duration … opportunities impact upon the observed distribution of unemployment duration(s). This is an important issue for policy formation and … unemployed. -- Unemployment Duration ; Job Search ; Regional Labour Markets …

(JUVOS) for the analysis of unemployment duration. Variants of the JUVOS are used by the labour administration and the … competing implementations of unemployment duration in the data yield partly unstable empirical result pattern even in presence … research community as an important source for the analysis of unemployment. While previous work has mentioned the relevant data …

probabilities between private and public employment, unemployment and inactivity. We examine the stocks and flows by gender, age and … unemployment rate. Public-sector employment contributes 20 percent to fluctuations in the unemployment rate in the UK, 15 percent …

wages affect the duration of time a vacancy is advertised. NHS workers in inner London are mandated by law to be paid an … duration with respect to wages of -6.3. This number is larger than reported by previous studies and suggests that firms can … and are robust to changes in the bandwidth and the duration measure. The estimates are similar across all occupational …

employment, unemployment and inactivity, from several angles. I examine aggregate conditional transition probabilities, job … contributions of job-finding and job-separation rates to fluctuations in the unemployment rate. Over the past cycle, the job …

employment, unemployment and inactivity, from several angles. I examine aggregate conditional transition probabilities, job … contributions of job-finding and job-separation rates to fluctuations in the unemployment rate. Over the past cycle, the job …

analyse the size and cyclicality of the flows between employment, unemployment and inactivity. I also examine job-to-job flows … unemployment rate. Although the job-finding rate has been more relevant over the past ten years, the job-separation rate was …

Diamond (1994) that an individual's probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases … genuine duration dependence will be stronger the more depressed the labor market. In conflict with this prediction this study … provides persuasive empirical evidence that the pattern of negative genuine duration dependence does not change over the …