Rent control and unemployment duration

Determinants of Unemployment Duration in Iran

This study investigates the effect of individual characteristics on the unemployment duration of job seekers in Iran, using information from the Labor Force Survey in 2018 and applying of nonparametric, semi-parametric and parametric methods. The results show that the probability of employment for married males and also Married females are more likely than single people. Regional differences in...

Rent Control

Unemployment duration in urban Ethiopia

Unemployment is best described by two dimensions: incidence and duration. While the first issue has received little attention for developing countries, there is practically no research on the duration aspect for developing countries. This paper looks at duration of unemployment among young men in urban Ethiopia. We observe that mean duration is very long, namely around four years. And analyse t...

Combining Micro and Macro Unemployment Duration Data

We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the e ects of the business cycle on the out ow from unemployment. We allow the cycle to a ect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the total in ow into unemployment. We estimate the model using (micro) survey data and (macro) administrative data from France. The distribution of the in ow ...

A Note on Unhappiness and Unemployment Duration

A Note on Unhappiness and Unemployment Duration Although it is now widely-accepted that unemployment is associated with sharply lower levels of individual well-being, relatively little is known about how this effect depends on unemployment duration. Data from three large-scale European panels is used to shed light on this issue; these data allow us to distinguish habituation to unemployment fro...