Summary In 1997, the German government enacted a reform of the unemployment insurance system which lead to a reduction of the maximum entitlement length for unemployment benefits of the older unemployed in the subsequent years. This paper analyses the effects of this reform on the risk of...

Abstract We suggest a pragmatic extension of the non-parametric copula-graphic estimator to a depending competing risks model with covariates. Our model is an attractive empirical approach for practitioners in many disciplines as it does not require knowledge of the marginal distributions....