professional skills and techniques (SPST). Using the inflows into unemployment for the year 1993, the empirical analysis uses local … programs starting during 1 to 6, 7 to 12, and 13 to 24 months of unemployment. The empirical results show a negative lock … estimated treatment effects is quite similar for the three time intervals of elapsed unemployment considered. The positive …

periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and post{unemployment earnings in West Germany. For … the unemployment duration, we estimate censored Box{Cox quantile regression, which is robust with respect to the … the length of benefit entitlement is only of minor importance for the duration of search unemployment and for post …

-specific unemployment rates in 1997. The required nominal wage reductions range from 8.8 to 12.2% and are the higher the lower the employees …

estimates the unemployment rate that is compatible with a tolerable inflation rate of say 2 percent following roughly the … compatible with 2 percent inflation in Germany is currently around 7 percent if the definition of unemployment follows the …