more dynamic. This paper studies the possible implications of such reforms for the duration distribution of unemployment. I … estimate a parametric duration model using cross-sectional data drawn from the Spanish Labor Force Survey from 1980 to 1994 to … analyze the probability of leaving unemployment before and after the introduction of fixed-term contracts. I find that the …

Diamond (1994) that an individual's probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases … genuine duration dependence will be stronger the more depressed the labor market. In conflict with this prediction this study … provides persuasive empirical evidence that the pattern of negative genuine duration dependence does not change over the …

This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with two destination … polynomial hazard function to test for the presence of two-sources of defective risks: search involving a random process of … unlucky draws that yields a non-proper duration distribution; and a split-population model in which the decision by some …

search intensity, as unemployment spells become very long. We discuss some policy implications of our findings … parameters of which are interpreted within the framework of search theory mixed with social psychological theories regarding … unemployment and labor market exclusion. The main findings of the study are that low levels of education and working experience are …

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

making benefit payments conditional on program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. We evaluate the effect of … Active Labor Market Programs and benefit entitlement on the duration of unemployment in Switzerland. In the evaluation we … participation. Taken together, this leads to the conclusion that programs prolong unemployment duration for men, but tend to shorten …

Using a proportional hazard model with multiple exits, this paper analyzes whether immigrants' unemployment spells … data set taken from the Swedish unemployment registers is used. The data set covers the period 1991 to 1996, a period of … substantial increases in both unemployment rates as well as in immigration. The estimates from the hazard model suggest that a …

; sickness insurance ; unemployment duration ; health ; duration analysis …Previous research suggests that there are substantial interactions between the unemployment insurance (UI) and the …. This paper examines whether these interactions affect the transition rate from unemployment to employment. To study this …

heterogeneity into account. Our results indicate that participation in JCS increases the unemployment duration mainly due to …This paper analyzes the impact of job creation schemes (JCS) on job search outcomes in the context of the turbulent …-of-events approach, we estimate multivariate discrete time duration models taking selection based on both observed and unobserved …

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 …