Unemployment duration, job search and labour market segmentation

Although it is a common theoretical assumption that the chances to find a job fall with time in unemployment, this is not systematically confirmed by empirical evidence, and there is no evidence for developing countries. We develop a framework that allows us to test the four major explanations why w...

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Main Author: Serneels, P
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: 2008
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