This paper provides the first systematic analysis of the reasons why women endure longer unemployment durations than … men in post-restructuring urban China using data obtained from a national representative household survey. Rejecting the …

This study examines how the financial buffer of unemployed individuals affects the duration of their unemployment and … unemployment duration, which is consistent with the theory that individuals with financial buffers are able to search for new …

disparate findings in prior studies. While we cannot reconcile earlier findings on the effect of unemployment duration, the …We use a resume audit study to better understand the role of employment and unemployment histories in affecting … age range, we find that applicants with 52 weeks of unemployment have a lower callback rate than do applicants with …

Although it is a common theoretical assumption that the chances to find a job fall with time in unemployment, this is … job search model we test the two main explanations why we may observe non-negative duration dependence while genuine … duration dependence is negative, namely financial support for the unemployed and a change in the economy over time. We also …