unemployment is a non-monotonic function of the minimum wage level. Effects differ strongly by labour market segment. Cross …

We present evidence for a highly significant interaction between state dependence in individual unemployment risk and … high unemployment and larger in times of low unemployment. This is consistent with the existence of stigma effects in the … sense that unemployed individuals face difficulties finding a new job because employers interpret unemployment as a negative …

We present evidence for a highly significant interaction between state dependence in individual unemployment risk and … high unemployment and larger in times of low unemployment. This is consistent with the existence of stigma effects in the … sense that unemployed individuals face difficulties finding a new job because employers interpret unemployment as a negative …

on the individual unemployment duration in West Germany. By applying a multivariate mixed proportional hazards model, we … are able to consider information of the timing of treatment in the unemployment spell as well as observable and …

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 …