. A small application with German register data on unemployment duration for younger workers demonstrates the … distribution of duration data. This paper discusses quantile regression for duration analysis allowing for a flexible specification … censoring of the response variable which is common in duration analysis. We compare quantile regression to standard duration …

show large differences in the number of spells and the unemployment duration across implementations. This suggests that …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 …

order to determine crucial factors that influence the distribution of unemployment duration in West Germany during the 1980s … unemployment duration distribution – a violation of the classical proportional hazard assumption which is very popular in … unemployment duration analysis. We also find that variables reflecting the (un-)employment history of an individual such as 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 … parametric model assumptions. We identify a systematic increase in unemployment duration in response to the reform in samples …

Using a competing-risk framework of exiting unemployment to jobs in a local or a distant labor market area, this paper …

by comparing the future situation of (?treated?) unemployed entering into FTCs after a particular unemployment duration … employment and unemployment. The empirical analysis is based on propensity score matching methods, obtaining the effects of FTCs … persons entering into FTCs after a certain number of month of unemployment are reasonable. A first counterfactual is never to …

duration in West Germany using censored quantile regressions. We analyze unemployment periods of more than 91,000 observations … unemployment duration. We conclude that work history variables are the ones most suitable in characterizing the unemployment … different sign depending on the quantiles of the unemployment duration distribution. This clearly is a violation of the …

. Estimation of standard duration models indicates that conclusions drawn from the IABS and the GSOEP differ in many cases. While …We compare information on the length of unemployment spells contained in the IAB employment subsample (IABS) and in the … German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Due to the lack of information on registered unemployment in the IABS, we use two …

We analyse the duration of unemployment spells in Poland using data from the Polish Labour Force Survey of August 1994 …. The effects on the duration of unemployment of important socio-economic and demographic characteristics are explored … heterogeneity, we find that the probability of finding a job increases, especially for men, with the duration of unemployment. …

This paper studies how cognitive and social skills in childhood are related to the duration of unemployment in … from unemployment to employment during an individual's first unemployment spell. The analysis is based on British cohort …