Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33523 
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Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1738
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In recent years there has been much policy discussion of the impact of unemployment benefits and other factors on unemployment duration in developed and transition countries. This paper presents first evidence on the determinants of unemployment duration in Ukraine. Using individual-level data from the first wave of the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS -2003), which cover the period 1997-2003, we find no significant effect of benefit receipt on exits from unemployment. However, our survival analysis confirms the hypothesis that income from casual activities or subsidiary farming has strong disincentive effect on the hazard of re-employment in Ukraine. The results also indicate that individual's age, marital status and gender, the level of education and place of residence are significantly related to the total time spent out of work. The estimates of the baseline hazard parameters do not suggest any marked negative duration dependence.
Subjects: 
unemployment duration
casual work
transition countries
semiparametric duration analysis
JEL: 
J64
J68
P23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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