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The Search for Success: Do the Unemployed find Stable Employment?

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René Böheim () (Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, UK)
Mark P. Taylor () (Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, UK)

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This paper uses an independent competing risks framework to model job tenure, with previous labour market status and the duration of the preceding unemployment spell as explanatory variables. We find that jobs that follow an unemployment spell have shorter mean duration than other jobs. Less than one half of jobs that follow unemployment last for twelve months. Multivariate results suggest that an unemployment spell has a severe penalty on subsequent job tenure. However, men and women who spend more time unemployed and searching for work are rewarded with a better worker-firm match in their subsequent job.

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Keywords: Job Tenure; Job Mobility; Unemployment;

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J11 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Demographic Trends and Forecasts
J20 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - General
J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
C33 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Models with Panel Data

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