In this paper we use Portuguese data on individual (multiple) unemployment spells and apply semi-parametric duration … probability of leaving unemployment into employment. Negative duration dependence and unobserved heterogeneity are also found in … persons with muscular, skeletal, geriatric and sensorial problems experience the longest unemployment spells. Organic (blind …

also find that the quality of the post-unemployment jobs was not affected by the activation program. Both findings confirm …

(JUVOS) for the analysis of unemployment duration. Variants of the JUVOS are used by the labour administration and the … competing implementations of unemployment duration in the data yield partly unstable empirical result pattern even in presence … research community as an important source for the analysis of unemployment. While previous work has mentioned the relevant data …

on the individual unemployment duration in West Germany. By applying a multivariate mixed proportional hazards model, we … are able to consider information of the timing of treatment in the unemployment spell as well as observable and …

unemployment into either new job or recall. The recall probability is allowed to affect the search intensity for new jobs. …

also find that the quality of the post-unemployment jobs was not affected by the activation program. Both findings confirm …

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 …

The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This paper … evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 …

-state unemployment rate. We draw on policy changes in Austria that extended maximum benefit duration from 30 to 52 weeks for individuals …This paper uses microdata to evaluate the impact of an increase in maximum benefit duration on the steady … impact of benefit duration on labor market flows and find that (i) the policy changes lead to an increase in the steady …