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 …

This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with two destination … unlucky draws that yields a non-proper duration distribution; and a split-population model in which the decision by some … unemployment. Although we do not reject the null of proportionality, abandoning the proportionality assumption does not materially …

set covering the period 1981-1990. The analysis is performed by estimation of reduced form transition models, the … unemployment and labor market exclusion. The main findings of the study are that low levels of education and working experience are … variables are not important. There is indirect evidence of psychological damaging and/or stigma effects of unemployment and …

model that allows for duration dependence in the exit rate from unemployment and for transitions between employment (E …We explore the extent to which composition, duration dependence, and labor force non-participation can account for the … sharp increase in the incidence of long-term unemployment (LTU) during the Great Recession. We first show that compositional …

This study examines individuals' unemployment experiences from the age of 18 up to the age of 35 using a large panel of … administrative records on unemployment related benefit claims of men in the United Kingdom over the past two decades. The main focus … is on the extent to which individuals' unemployment experiences are affected by regional and skill differences, i …