A semi-Markov model of turnover, resulting from optimizing behavior on the part of workers, is developed. Duration …

self-employment to paid employment decreases and the probability of switching to unemployment is unaffected …

accessibility to appropriate jobs should shorten the duration of unemployment. We focus on lower-income workers with strong labor … that better job accessibility significantly decreases the duration of joblessness among lower-paid displaced workers …

We examine the effects of unemployment insurance (UI) experience rating on layoffs using high quality firm and …

We estimate the causal effect of parents' unemployment on unemployment among their children in their own adulthood. We …) identification strategy using parents' job loss during a mass layoff as the instrument. We find evidence of unemployment inheritance … in the next generation. An additional day of unemployment during childhood causally raises the average unemployment days …

signal of productivity, and duration of unemployment may be positively related to post-laid-off wages even among workers who … the Current Population Survey reveals that the wage/unemployment duration relation differs between laid-off workers and … employer and may choose to remain unemployed rather than to accept a low-wage job. In this case, unemployment can serve as a …