How MUCH TIME do individuals spend in unemployment? How does this change over the
business cycle? How does the duration of unemployment vary across individuals? Answers …

Presenting a complete survey of labor economics from the search point of view, this is the
first book to coordinate a vast and scattered literature, making an increasingly important and …

Serving as both a student textbook and a professional reference/handbook, this volume
explores the statistical methods of examining time intervals between successive state …

Generally, structural job search models are taken to be stationary. In this paper models are
examined in which every exogenous variable can cause nonstationarity, for instance …

This second edition of Models for Repeated Measurements has been comprehensively
revised and updated, taking into account the huge amount of research that has been carried …

A matching model is analysed in which firms imperfectly test workers prior to hiring them. If
(some) firms hire only workers who pass the test, there is an informational externality; …

This paper investigates the role of the extended parental leave in the return to work for
mothers of newborn children. Exploiting the variability in policies offered by the European …

The study of career development has become more important during a time of rising
competition. Even with the help of newly available big data in the field of human resources, it …

The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell‐
dependent unemployment benefits displays time‐varying exit rates. Building on semi …

One of the more striking aspects of the Dutch Welfare State is its apparent difficulty in
controlling the number of transfer recipients. A prime example of this management problem …