This paper examines the robustness of a measure of the average complete duration of unemployment in Canada to a host of … assumptions used in its derivation. In contrast to the average incomplete duration of unemployment, which is a lagging cyclical … that a non steady state estimator would be a valuable compliment to the statistics on unemployment duration that are …

parameter of interest is the expected unemployment duration. If both job separations and job accessions follow a Poisson process … duration distribution. We propose a new measure for unemployment durations (an inflow corrected stock sample measure of … unemployment duration) that can be easily calculated from stock sample data and takes account of the fact that it is primarily the …

(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 …

correcting for measurement error, wages appear to be very sticky. In the average quarter, the probability that an individual will … peak at 12 months. (5) The probability of a wage change is positively correlated with the unemployment rate and with the …

correcting for measurement error, wages appear to be very sticky. In the average quarter, the probability that an individual will … peak at 12 months. 5) The probability of a wage change is positively correlated with the unemployment rate and with the … consumer price inflation rate. -- Wage stickiness ; micro-level evidence ; measurement error …