unhappy and the need for activation policies. -- happiness ; unemployment duration …

enables strategic sick reporting reduces the mean unemployment duration by 4 days. … care system on unemployment durations. We estimate that for around 25% of unemployed workers, removing the channel that …

Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a search-matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the willingness to … pay for regional amenities and the regional quality of life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local … unemployment ratio decreases in response to an increase in the amenity level if the amenity is marginally more beneficial to …

heterogeneity persists throughout the duration of their unemployment spell. Notably, a considerable proportion of unemployed workers …

(such as temporary contracts and mini-jobs) as well as unemployment. This combined unstable state captures a fuller picture … of the individual experience of volatile income and uncertain employment status than unemployment alone. We find that the … survival rates of unstable spells in the two countries are much more similar than those from unemployment. This suggests that …

parameter of interest is the expected unemployment duration. If both job separations and job accessions follow a Poisson process … duration distribution. We propose a new measure for unemployment durations (an inflow corrected stock sample measure of … unemployment duration) that can be easily calculated from stock sample data and takes account of the fact that it is primarily the …

There are few studies on unemployment duration in developing countries. This is the first study on duration aspect of … parametric estimation methods are used, controlling for the unobserved heterogeneity. Two alternative definitions of unemployment … effect of the local unemployment rate is large and negative. Duration dependence of the exit rate from unemployment is …

On the basis of aggregate data for the early nineties, we analyse the determinants of unemployment duration for laid … Proportional Hazard specification can be too restrictive, leading to an overstatement of the extent of true negative duration … dependence. We conclude that negative duration dependence is largely spurious. We also decompose the time variation of the hazard …