Unemployment information in individual level register data depends on institutional settings, administrative procedures … German legal unemployment definitions for the Sample of the Integrated Employment Biographies (IEBS). The IEBS belongs to a … show large differences in the number of spells and the unemployment duration across implementations. This suggests that …

, the transition rates from employment to unemployment rose significantly in the three months prior to the reform. For the … into unemployment fell significantly; among the 57 to 64-yearolds they were well over 20 percent lower than without the … of the effects of the financial reform nevertheless shows an annual cost-saving potential for unemployment insurance of 3 …

dependent competing risks. We apply our framework to empirically evaluate the effect of unemployment benefits on observed … migration of unemployed workers in Germany. Our findings weakly indicate that reducing the entitlement length for unemployment …

. As an application we estimate nonparametric conditional quantile functions with German administrative unemployment …

In this paper, we estimate the effect of different macro and micro variables on the distribution of unemployment … duration in West Germany using censored quantile regressions. We analyze unemployment periods of more than 91,000 observations … indicating the macroeconomic environment such as the unemployment rate have a weak effect only. On the other hand, variables …

This paper empirically analyzes the distribution of unemployment durations in West Germany before and after the changes … during the mid 1980s in the maximum entitlement periods for unemployment benefits for elderly unemployed. The analysis is … Germany. We introduce two proxies for unemployment, since the data do not involve a precise economic definition of …

Economic theory suggests that an extension of the maximum length of entitlement for unemployment benefits increases the … duration of unemployment. Empirical results for the reform of the unemployment compensation system in Germany during the 1980s … unemployment is not directly observed. For this reason we bound the reform effect on unemployment duration over different …