spell at the time of interview and on all previous spells back to one year before is used to construct unemployment duration … data. Unemployment spells are defined as a series of monthly episodes ending up in a transition to job or out of labour … force, or right-censored. For any unemployment spell recorded at the time of interview, the individual is asked to report on …

which differences in mobility explain differences in the probability of exiting unemployment between the two countries …

magnitude of mobility flows, workers do appear more ready to move from countries where unemployment is high to those where it is …

In this paper, U.S. data on labor market histories of displaced workers are used to quantify the effect of Unemployment … Insurance Compensation (UIC) on both unemployment and employment durations. This results in the first available assessment of … unemployment durations. …

Unemployment insurance is usually found to show negative effects in the transition from unemployment to a new job …. However, the extent to which workers' careers might improve or deteriorate as a result of the unemployment insurance system is …

The relationship between unemployment benefit duration, unemployment duration and subsequent job duration is … be correlated with unemployment duration as well as accepted job duration. I examine two potential explanations for the … relationship between unemployment and job spell durations; UI benefits increase job matching quality vs unobserved heterogeneity. I …

. The data are from a randomized experiment conducted in the Netherlands. They include registers of post-unemployment … monitoring effects on post-unemployment outcomes. We find that the option to climb the job ladder reduces substitution between … search channels during unemployment and compensates for adverse long-run effects of monitoring on wages. We use the …