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92 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14615
Coworker Networks and the Role of Occupations in Job Finding
Attila Gyetvai, Maria Zhu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14194
The Effects of Unemployment Assistance on Unemployment Exits
Tomi Kyyrä
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14189
The Lock-in Effects of Part-Time Unemployment Benefits
Helène Benghalem, Pierre Cahuc, Pierre Villedieu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13423
Wealth, Portfolios, and Unemployment Duration
Francois Fontaine, Janne Nyborg Jensen, Rune Majlund Vejlin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13068
Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment: Causal Evidence from Austria
Dominik Grübl, Mario Lackner, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12531
Numeracy and Unemployment Duration
Thomas Dohmen, Bert van Landeghem
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11736
How Do Automation and Offshorability Influence Unemployment Duration and Subsequent Job Quality?
Bernhard Schmidpeter, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
published as 'Automation, unemployment, and the role of labor market training' in: European Economic Review, 2021, 137, 103808
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10799
Estimating the Effects of Potential Benefit Duration without Variation in the Maximum Duration of Unemployment Benefits
Tomi Kyyrä, Hanna Onerva Pesola
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10770
Does Part-Time Work Help Unemployed Workers to Find Full-Time Work? Evidence from Spain
Tomi Kyyrä, José María Arranz, Carlos García-Serrano
published as "Does Subsidized Part-Time Employment Help Unemployed Workers to Find Full-Time Employment?" in: Labour Economics, 2019, 56, 68-83
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10531
Comparing Econometric Methods to Empirically Evaluate Job-Search Assistance
Paul Muller, Bas van der Klaauw, Arjan Heyma
published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2020, 35 (5), 526-547
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10484
The Effects of UI Benefits on Unemployment and Subsequent Outcomes: Evidence from a Kinked Benefit Rule
Tomi Kyyrä, Hanna Onerva Pesola
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10369
Job Creation Schemes in Turbulent Times
Annette Bergemann, Laura Pohlan, Arne Uhlendorff
revised version published as 'The Impact of Participation in Job Creation Schemes in Turbulent Times' in: Labour Economics, 2017, 47, 182-201
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10262
Working to Get Fired? Regression Discontinuity Effects of Unemployment Benefit Eligibility on Prior Employment Duration
Pedro S. Martins
published in: Journal of Policy Modelling, 2021, 43 (5), 1016-1030
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10233
Immigrant Birthcountry Networks and Unemployment Duration: Evidence around the Great Recession
Kusum Mundra, Fernando Rios-Avila
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10223
The Consequences of Long Term Unemployment: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
Katharine G. Abraham, John C. Haltiwanger, L. Kristin Sandusky, James R. Spletzer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10177
Earnings Exemptions for Unemployed Workers: The Relationship between Marginal Employment, Unemployment Duration and Job Quality
Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Arne Uhlendorff
published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 177-193
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9465
Factors Determining Callbacks to Job Applications by the Unemployed: An Audit Study
Henry S Farber, Dan Silverman, Till von Wachter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8972
Home-Ownership, Unemployed's Job Search Behavior and Post-Unemployment Outcomes
Marco Caliendo, Anne C. Gielen, Robert Mahlstedt
published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 137, 218-221
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8121
Unemployment Transitions to Stable and Unstable Jobs Before and During the Crisis
Amparo Nagore García, Arthur van Soest
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7957
A Contribution to the Empirics of Reservation Wages
Alan B. Krueger, Andreas I. Mueller
published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2016, 8 (1), 142-179
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7740
Structural Empirical Evaluation of Job Search Monitoring
Gerard J. van den Berg, Bas van der Klaauw
published in: International Economic Review, 2019, 60 (2), 879-903
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7347
Do Extended Unemployment Benefits Lengthen Unemployment Spells? Evidence from Recent Cycles in the U.S. Labor Market
Henry S Farber, Robert G. Valletta
revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50(4), 873-909
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7193
Unemployment and Subsequent Employment Stability: Does Labour Market Policy Matter?
Melike Wulfgramm, Lukas Fervers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7077
Is Longer Unemployment Rewarded with Longer Job Tenure?
Miki Kohara, Masaru Sasaki, Tomohiro Machikita
published in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2013, 29, 44-56
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6992
Do Low-Wage Workers React Less to Longer Unemployment Benefits? Quasi-Experimental Evidence
Mario Centeno, Alvaro A. Novo
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 76(2), 185–207
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6650
Estimating the Latent Effect of Unemployment Benefits on Unemployment Duration
Simon M.S. Lo, Gesine Stephan, Ralf Wilke
fundamentally revised version published as 'Competing Risks Copula Models for Unemployment Duration: An Application to a German Hartz Reform' in Journal of Econometric Methods, 2017, 6, 1-20
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6499
Marginal Employment, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality
Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Arne Uhlendorff
substantially revised version available as IZA DP No. 10177
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6476
To Meet or Not to Meet (Your Case Worker) – That is the Question
Gerard J. van den Berg, Lene Kjaersgaard, Michael Rosholm
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6362
Decomposing the Ins and Outs of Cyclical Unemployment
Ronald Bachmann, Mathias Sinning
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 78 (6), 853-876
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6320
Unhappiness and Job Finding
Anne C. Gielen, Jan C. van Ours
published in: Economica, 2014, 81, 544–565
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5937
Scarring Effects of Remaining Unemployed for Long-Term Unemployed School-Leavers
Bart Cockx, Matteo Picchio
published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 2013, 176 (4), 951-980
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5485
The Threat Effect of Participation in Active Labor Market Programs on Job Search Behavior of Migrants in Germany
Annette Bergemann, Marco Caliendo, Gerard J. van den Berg, Klaus F. Zimmermann
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2011, 32 (7), 777-795
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5077
The Reservation Wage Unemployment Duration Nexus
John T. Addison, José Machado, Pedro Portugal
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 75 (6), 980-987
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4930
Joblessness and Perceptions about the Effectiveness of Democracy
Duha T. Altindag, Naci Mocan
published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2010, 31 (2), 99-123
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4844
Hazard Analysis of Unemployment Duration by Gender in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey
Aysit Tansel, H. Mehmet Tasci
published in: Labour, 2010, 24 (4), 501-530
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4750
Locus of Control and Job Search Strategies
Marco Caliendo, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Arne Uhlendorff
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97(1), 88-103, Supplementary Appendix available
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4724
Disposable Workforce in Italy
Bruno Contini, Elisa Grand
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4681
Incentive Effects of Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts: Evidence from Chile
Gonzalo Reyes Hartley, Jan C. van Ours, Milan Vodopivec
published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (6), 798-809
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4670
Benefit Duration, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality: A Regression-Discontinuity Approach
Marco Caliendo, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Arne Uhlendorff
published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013, 28 (4), 604-627
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4591
Have Labour Market Reforms at the Turn of the Millennium Changed Job Durations of the New Entrants? A Comparative Study for Germany and Italy
Gianna Claudia Giannelli, Ursula Jaenichen, Claudia Villosio
published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2012, 33, 143 - 172
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4509
How Effective Are Unemployment Benefit Sanctions? Looking Beyond Unemployment Exit
Patrick Arni, Rafael Lalive, Jan C. van Ours
revised version (including technical online appendix) published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013, 28 (7), 1153–1178
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4283
Does Culture Affect Unemployment? Evidence from the Röstigraben
Beatrix Brügger, Rafael Lalive, Josef Zweimüller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4079
How a Mandatory Activation Program Reduces Unemployment Durations: The Effects of Distance
Brian Krogh Graversen, Jan C. van Ours
published as 'An Activation Program as a Stick to Job Finding' in: Labour, 2011, 25 (2), 167 - 181
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3981
Reservation Wages, Expected Wages and the Duration of Unemployment: Evidence from British Panel Data
Sarah Brown, Karl Taylor
published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 119 (3), 276-279
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3848
Active Labor Market Policy Effects in a Dynamic Setting
Bruno Crépon, Marc Ferracci, Grégory Jolivet, Gerard J. van den Berg
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7, (2-3), 595 - 605
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3825
The Effect of Active Labor Market Programs on Not-Yet Treated Unemployed Individuals
Gerard J. van den Berg, Annette Bergemann, Marco Caliendo
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 606-616
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3609
Cognitive Skills Explain Economic Preferences, Strategic Behavior, and Job Attachment
Stephen V. Burks, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Lorenz Götte, Aldo Rustichini
revised version published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2009, 106 (19), 7745-7750
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3215
Training the Unemployed in France: How Does It Affect Unemployment Duration and Recurrence?
Bruno Crépon, Marc Ferracci, Denis Fougère
published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2012, 107-108, 175-199.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3069
The Effect of Job Displacement on the Transitions to Employment and Early Retirement for Older Workers in Four European Countries
Konstantinos Tatsiramos
revised version published as "Job displacement and the transitions to re-employment and early retirement for non-employed older workers" in: European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (4), 517-535
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3028
Unemployment Duration and Disability: Evidence from Portugal
Dario Sciulli, Antonio Menezes, José António Cabral Vieira
published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2012, 33 (1), 21-48
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3016
How Do Different Entitlements to Unemployment Benefits Affect the Transitions from Unemployment into Employment?
John T. Addison, Pedro Portugal
published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 101 (3), 206-209
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2959
Contingent, Temporary Unemployment Insurance’s Impacts on Employment and Unemployment Durations
Kailing Shen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2959
Contingent, Temporary Unemployment Insurance’s Impacts on Employment and Unemployment Durations
Kailing Shen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2789
Using Behavioral Economic Experiments at a Large Motor Carrier: The Context and Design of the Truckers and Turnover Project
Stephen V. Burks, Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Lorenz Götte, Kristen Monaco, Kay Porter, Aldo Rustichini
published in: Stefan Bender, Julia Lane, Kathryn Shaw, Fredrik Andersson, and Till Von Wachter (eds.), The Analysis of Firms and Employees: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches, NBER and University of Chicago Press, 2008, 45-106
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2681
Benefit-Entitlement Effects and the Duration of Unemployment: An Ex-Ante Evaluation of Recent Labour Market Reforms in Germany
Hendrik Schmitz, Viktor Steiner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2590
The Spike at Benefit Exhaustion: Leaving the Unemployment System or Starting a New Job?
David Card, Raj Chetty, Andrea Weber
published in: American Economic Review, 2007, 97 (2), 113-118
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2504
How to Help Unemployed Find Jobs Quickly: Experimental Evidence from a Mandatory Activation Program
Brian Krogh Graversen, Jan C. van Ours
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (10-11), 2020-2035
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2406
A Note on Unhappiness and Unemployment Duration
Andrew E. Clark
published in Applied Economics Quarterly, 2006, 52 (4), 291-308
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2299
Unemployment Dynamics among Migrants and Natives
Arne Uhlendorff, Klaus F. Zimmermann
substantially revised version published in: Economica, 2014, 81, 348-367
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2280
Unemployment Insurance in Europe: Unemployment Duration and Subsequent Employment Stability
Konstantinos Tatsiramos
revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(6), 1225-1260
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2200
How Do Extended Benefits Affect Unemployment Duration? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Rafael Lalive
published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2007, 142 (2), 785-806
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2174
U.S. Unemployment Duration: Has Long Become Longer or Short Become Shorter?
José Machado, Pedro Portugal, Juliana Guimarães
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2132
Labour Market Signalling and Unemployment Duration: An Empirical Analysis Using Employer-Employee Data
Anders Frederiksen, Rikke Ibsen, Michael Rosholm, Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen
published in: Economic Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 84-86
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1796
Counseling the Unemployed: Does It Lower Unemployment Duration and Recurrence?
Bruno Crépon, Muriel Dejemeppe, Marc Gurgand
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1796
Counseling the Unemployed: Does It Lower Unemployment Duration and Recurrence?
Bruno Crépon, Muriel Dejemeppe, Marc Gurgand
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1738
What Is Behind Stagnant Unemployment in Ukraine: The Role of the Informal Sector
Olga Kupets
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1607
Marriage, Wealth, and Unemployment Duration: A Gender Asymmetry Puzzle
Rasmus Lentz, Torben Tranæs
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1513
Estimating the Effect of a Retraining Program for Displaced Workers on Their Transition to Permanent Jobs
Sandra Cavaco, Denis Fougère, Julien Pouget
published in French under the title: "Conventions de conversion et retour à l'emploi", Economie et Prévision, 2004 (164-165), 93-111
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1418
A Danish Profiling System
Michael Rosholm, Michael Svarer, Bo Hammer
published in: Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift (Danish Economic Journal), 2006, 144 (2), 209-229
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1363
How Changes in Financial Incentives Affect the Duration of Unemployment
Rafael Lalive, Jan C. van Ours, Josef Zweimüller
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2006, 73 (4), 1009-1038
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1258
Determinants of Unemployment Duration for Men and Women in Turkey
Aysit Tansel, H. Mehmet Tasci
substantially revised version published as 'Hazard Analysis of Unemployment Duration by Gender in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey' in: Labour, 2010, 24 (4), 501-530
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1252
Reservation Wages, Search Duration, and Accepted Wages in Europe
John T. Addison, Mario Centeno, Pedro Portugal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1215
Social Networks and Labor Market Transitions
Yann Bramoullé, Gilles Saint-Paul
published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 188-195
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1163
The Effect of Unemployment Insurance on Unemployment Duration and the Subsequent Employment Stability
Konstantinos Tatsiramos
substantially revised version appeared as DP No. 2280
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1163
The Effect of Unemployment Insurance on Unemployment Duration and the Subsequent Employment Stability
Konstantinos Tatsiramos
substantially revised version appeared as DP No. 2280
IZA Discussion Paper No. 978
How Does the Unemployment Insurance System Shape the Time Profile of Jobless Duration?
John T. Addison, Pedro Portugal
published in: Economics Letters, 2004, 85 (2), 229-234
IZA Discussion Paper No. 954
Six Ways to Leave Unemployment
Pedro Portugal, John T. Addison
published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2008, 55 (4), 393 - 419
IZA Discussion Paper No. 872
Are Home Owners Really More Unemployed?
Jakob R. Munch, Michael Rosholm, Michael Svarer
published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (514), 991-1013
IZA Discussion Paper No. 842
Rent Control and Unemployment Duration
Michael Svarer, Michael Rosholm, Jakob R. Munch
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2005, 89 (11-12), 2165-2181
IZA Discussion Paper No. 632
Duration Dependence in the Exit Rate out of Unemployment in Belgium: Is It True or Spurious?
Bart Cockx, Muriel Dejemeppe
published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2005, 20 (1), 1-23
IZA Discussion Paper No. 492
Benefit Entitlement and Unemployment Duration: The Role of Policy Endogeneity
Rafael Lalive, Josef Zweimüller
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2004, 88 (12), 2587-2616
IZA Discussion Paper No. 469
The Effect of Benefit Sanctions on the Duration of Unemployment
Rafael Lalive, Jan C. van Ours, Josef Zweimüller
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2005, 3 (6), 1386-1417
IZA Discussion Paper No. 374
Counseling and Monitoring of Unemployed Workers: Theory and Evidence from a Controlled Social Experiment
Gerard J. van den Berg, Bas van der Klaauw
published in: International Economic Review, 2006, 47 (3), 895-936
IZA Discussion Paper No. 350
Unemployment Duration: Competing and Defective Risks
John T. Addison, Pedro Portugal
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2003, 38 (1), 156-191
IZA Discussion Paper No. 349
Job Search Methods and Outcomes
John T. Addison, Pedro Portugal
published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2002, 54 (3), 505-533
IZA Discussion Paper No. 294
Estimating the Effect of Unemployment Insurance Compensation on the Labor Market Histories of Displaced Workers
Štepán Jurajda
published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2002, 108(2), 227-252
IZA Discussion Paper No. 155
The Duration of Immigrants' Unemployment Spells: Evidence from Sweden
Jörgen Hansen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 144
Flexibility vs. Rigidity: Does Spain have the worst of both Worlds?
Gilles Saint-Paul
published in: Jonas Agell, Michael Keen and Alfons Weichenrieder (eds.), Labor Market Institutions and Public Regulation, 2004, 101-122
IZA Discussion Paper No. 116
Unemployment Insurance and Subsequent Job Duration: Job Matching vs Unobserved Heterogeneity
Christian Belzil
published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2001,16 (5), 619-636
IZA Discussion Paper No. 102
Labor Supply and Matching Rates for Welfare Recipients: An Analysis Using Neighborhood Characteristics
Bas van der Klaauw, Jan C. van Ours
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2003, 87 (5), 957-985
IZA Discussion Paper No. 84
The Heterogeneity and Cyclical Sensitivity of Unemployment: An Exploration of German Labor Market Flows
Christoph M. Schmidt
published in: Ifo Studien, 2000, 46 (1), 73-98
IZA Discussion Paper No. 31
Persistence and the German Unemployment Problem: Empirical Evidences on German Labor Market Flows
Christoph M. Schmidt
published in: Economie et Statistique, 2000, 332/333, 83-95
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