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Title: Re-Employment Probabilities over the Business Cycle
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Imbens, Guido W. Lynch, Lisa M. |
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Re-Employment Probabilities over the Business Cycle IZA Discussion Paper No. 2167, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), June 2006 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Keyword(s): Business Cycles; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration; Re-employment; Unemployment; Unemployment Duration; Unemployment, Youth Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using a Cox proportional hazard model that allows for a flexible time dependence in order to incorporate business cycle effects, we analyze the determinants of reemployment probabilities of young workers in the U.S. from 1978-1989. We find considerable changes in the chances of young workers finding jobs over the business cycle despite the fact that personal characteristics of those starting jobless spells do not vary much over time. Therefore, government programs that target specific demographic groups may change individuals' positions within the queue of job seekers, but may only have a more limited impact on average re-employment probabilities. Living in an area with high local unemployment reduces re-employment chances as does being in a long spell of nonemployment. However, the damage associated with being in a long spell seems to be reduced somewhat if a worker is unemployed in an area with high overall unemployment. |
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Imbens, Guido W. and Lisa M. Lynch. "Re-Employment Probabilities over the Business Cycle." IZA Discussion Paper No. 2167, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), June 2006. |