There are two ways to end a spell of unemployment. The first and more usual way is for the
unemployed person to find a job or return to a job after layoff. The other is to stop looking for …

According to a modem view of the labor market, as reflected most prominently in papers by
Martin Feldstein, Robert Hall, and George Perry, among others, unemployment in the United …

… The effects of labor force withdrawal As the preceding discussion indicates, one important
issue in interpreting duration statistics concerns the outcome of a spell of unemployment. …

This paper speculates about the consequences of unemployment for families in the 1980s,
using data from the recession of 1975 as well as findings from the period of the Great …

Unemployment statistics are based on aggregates of individuals, not families, yet the family
as a unit suffers from unemployment-especially of the major wage earner. This paper …

Using the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics, this study examines the likelihood of
extended joblessness for breadwinners who were unemployed during the recession of 1975. …

… tica1, if the outcome of a spell of unemployment affected the individual's subsequent values
of q. This is referred to by Heckman and Borjas (1979) as lagged duration dependence. No …

Let n denote the number of unemployed individuals at time t. Rec search models2 suggest
that the probability of the ith unemployed vidual beoming employed in a given period, EMPi, …

Okun's Law is estimated for 26 states in the United States. An average of 3.1 percentage
points of additional state-level output growth is found to be required for each percentage point …

Labor economists have spent considerable time studying discouraged workers. One issue
which has not received emphasis in the literature is the length of time spent unemployed …