This paper examines whether or not a prolonged unemployment period can raise the quality of job matching after … a negative relationship between unemployment duration and the subsequent job duration. Restricting the sample to job … even greater negative effect of unemployment duration on the following job duration. The importance lies not only in the …

sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … estimate multi-spell duration models with selection on unobserved characteristics. We find that a vacancy referral increases …

sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … estimate multi-spell duration models with selection on unobserved characteristics.We find that a vacancy referral increases the …

In Portugal duration of benefits is exclusively age determined while replacement rates are to all intents and purposes … uniform. We exploit differences in potential maximum duration of benefits for nearly matched pairs of individuals who differ … in age by one year and in potential maximum duration of benefits by three months. In specifications that take account of …

unemployment duration by 5.7 weeks (or 14%), implying an elasticity of 0.86. We find strong behavioral effects as the reform … reduced the expected unemployment duration right from the beginning of the unemployment spell. While the reform had no effect …

equivalent workers fall sharply as unemployment duration progresses. We use the model to quantitatively assess the consequences … decline in callbacks. Interviews lost to duration impact individual job-finding rates solely if they would have led to jobs …. Discrimination in callbacks is thus largely a response to dynamic selection, with limited consequences for structural duration …