This paper uses longitudinal survey data to assess factors affecting the duration of unemployment in Russia. We examine … remarkably similar across the different unemployment definitions and model specifications. Therefore, despite the formidable …

In this paper we consider a risk averse worker who is moving back and forth between employment and unemployment … wealth decreases, a finding which is in accordance with our empirical duration analysis using micro data on unemployment … spells and run down during unemployment spells but the consumption path is never going to be completely smooth over states …

We investigate the remarkably short unemployment spells in the Czech Republic compared to Slovakia and other Central … and East European economies. We estimate hazard functions and find that 40 to 50 percent of the difference in unemployment … unemployment compensation system has a moderately negative effect on the exit rate from unemployment. Policy makers hence have …

that households with a participating wife are better able to deal with unemployment of the husband. A supplementary … sensitive to his own unemployment income if the wife is nonparticipating. This implies that unemployment benefits have a …