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Job-Search Requirements for Unemployed at the End of Working Life

Effects on Unemployment Dynamics and Self-Employment Probabilities

Jim Been and Marike Knoef
Journal of Human Resources, March 2017, 52 (2) 491-530; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.52.2.0415-7063R1
Jim Been
Jim Been is an assistant professor at the Department of Economics at Leiden University and a Netspar Research Fellow. Marike Knoef is an associate professor at the Department of Economics at Leiden University and a Netspar Research Fellow. ().
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Marike Knoef
Jim Been is an assistant professor at the Department of Economics at Leiden University and a Netspar Research Fellow. Marike Knoef is an associate professor at the Department of Economics at Leiden University and a Netspar Research Fellow. ().
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vol. 52 no. 2 491-530
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.52.2.0415-7063R1
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University of Wisconsin Press
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0022-166X
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1548-8004
History 
  • Received April 1, 2015
  • Accepted December 1, 2015
  • Published online April 27, 2017.

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  1. Jim Been is an assistant professor at the Department of Economics at Leiden University and a Netspar Research Fellow. Marike Knoef is an associate professor at the Department of Economics at Leiden University and a Netspar Research Fellow. (m.g.knoef{at}law.leidenuniv.nl).
  1. Corresponding address: Department of Economics, Leiden University, PO Box 9520, Steenschuur 25, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands. Tel.: +31 71 527 8569. (j.been{at}law.leidenuniv.nl).

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