Most data used to study the durations of unemployment spells come from the Current Population Survey, which is a point …-in-time survey and gives an incomplete picture of the underlying duration distribution. We introduce a new sample of completed … unemployment spells obtained from panel data and apply CPS sampling and reporting techniques to replicate the type of data used by …

unemployment only and not heterogeneous with respect to individual characteristics or unemployment duration, we conclude that only … changes is, nonetheless, strongly debated. We contribute to this discussion by analyzing the effect of unemployment on LOC … unemployment. Overall, we find a significant shift in stated LOC due to unemployment. Because the effect is observable during …

Social surveys are often used to estimate unemployment duration distributions. Survey non-response may then cause a … bias. We study this by using a data set that combines survey information of individual workers with administrative records … of the same workers. The latter provide information on durations of unemployment and personal characteristics of all …

Social surveys are often used to estimate unemployment duration distributions. Survey nonresponse may then cause a bias … of the same workers. The latter provide information on unemployment durations and personal characteristics of all survey … respondents and non-respondents. We develop a method to empirically distinguish between two explanations for a bias in results …