Abstract: We analyse benefit-entitlement effects and the likely impact of the recent reform of the unemployment … compensation system on the duration of unemployment in Germany on the basis of a flexible discrete-time hazard rate model estimated … for the unemployed who are eligible to means-tested unemployment assistance after the exhaustion of unemployment benefit …

We analyze the effect of imposed benefit sanctions on the unemployment-to-employment transition of unemployed people … entitled to unemployment compensation on the basis of register data from the German Federal Employment Agency. We combine … effects diminish with the elapsed unemployment duration until a sanction is imposed. The limited use of benefit sanctions can …

This paper contributes to the policy-relevant question whether self-employment is a way out of (long-term) unemployment …. We estimate the relationship between the entry rate into self-employment and previous (long-term) unemployment on the … measurement errors induced by the pseudo panel structure. We find that previous (long-term) unemployment significantly increases …

matching techniques, we analyse the effects of marginal employment on future individual outcome variables such as unemployment …, (ii) reduces future unemployment, (iii) slightly increases cumulated future earnings, on average, and (iv) is associated …