We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from … differences between the micro and macro unemployment definitions. The results also show to what extent the unemployment duration … unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the …

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 suggests that a …

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

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

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 …

unemployed workers and on their exit rate from unemployment. For that purpose, we specify and estimate two structural search …In this paper, we examine the disincentive effects of the state of employment service on the search effort of … models in which unemployed workers select their optimal search intensity given the exogenous arrival rate of job offers …