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US unemployment duration: has long become longer or short become shorter?
Machado, José A. F.; Portugal, Pedro; Guimaraes, Juliana - 2006
The U.S. labor market has been experiencing unprecedented high average unemployment duration. The shift in the unemployment duration distribution can be traced back to the early nineties. In this study, censored quantile regression methods are employed to analyze the changes in the US...
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Business cycles and compositional variation in US unemployment
Abbring, Jaap H.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Ours, Jan C. van - 1997
In the past decades several features of U.S. unemployment dynamics have been investigated empirically. The original focus of research was on the duration of unemployment. In later studies the cyclicality of incidence and duration, compositional effects and duration dependence of the exit rate...
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Unemployment benefits as a search subsidy: New evidence on duration and wage effects of unemployment insurance
Gangl, Markus - 2002
Job search models offer two complementary predictions about the effects of unemployment benefits on job search outcomes … among unemployed workers. By raising workers' reservation wages, unemployment benefits should contribute to both prolonged … benefits on both unemployment duration and post-unemployment wages. Based on panel data from the Survey of Income and Program …
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Do Extended Unemployment Benefits Lengthen Unemployment Spells? Evidence from Recent Cycles in the U.S. Labor Market
Farber, Henry S.; Valletta, Robert G. - 2013
) benefits was extended to historical highs in the United States. We exploit variation in the timing and size of UI benefit … with the prior extension of benefits during the much milder downturn in the early 2000s. Using monthly matched individual … duration of unemployment spells and the length of UI benefits available in the state and month, conditional on state economic …
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A contribution to the empirics of reservation wages
Krueger, Alan B.; Müller, Andreas - 2014
This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high‐frequency longitudinal data. Using data from our survey of unemployed workers in New Jersey, where workers were interviewed each week for up to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported...
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Estimating the Effect of Unemployment Insurance Compensation on the Labor Market Histories of Displaced Workers
Jurajda, Štepán - 2001
the fraction of time spent employed could be offset by suspending an extended benefits program in order to shorten …
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Estimating the effect of unemployment insurance compensation on the labor market histories of displaced workers
Jurajda, Štěpán - 2001
the fraction of time spent employed could be offset by suspending an extended benefits program in order to shorten …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001597518
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Estimating the effect of unemployment insurance compensation on the labor market histories of displaced workers
Jurajda, Štěpán - 2001
the fraction of time spent employed could be offset by suspending an extended benefits program in order to shorten …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401354
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Factors determining callbacks to job applications by the unemployed : an audit study
Farber, Henry S.; Silverman, Dan; Wachter, Till von - 2015
We use an audit study approach to investigate how unemployment duration, age, and holding a low-level "interim" job affect the likelihood that experienced college- educated females applying for an administrative support job receive a callback from a potential employer. First, the results show no...
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The consequences of long term unemployment : evidence from matched employer-employee data
Abraham, Katharine G.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Sandusky, … - 2016
It is well known that the long-term unemployed fare worse in the labor market than the short-term unemployed, but less clear why this is so. One potential explanation is that the long-term unemployed are "bad apples" who had poorer prospects from the outset of their spells (heterogeneity)....
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