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 …

Recent labor market reforms in Germany aim, among other things, at reducing unemployment by restricting passive … unemployment measures, emphasizing local labor market policies and re-structuring public employment services. This paper uses … contribute to the shortening of unemployment duration. For this purpose, we estimate a semi-parametric duration model with three …

From 2002–2004, the German government passed several laws that curtailed the generosity of the unemployment … compensation system. One of the most ambitious changes was a considerable reduction in unemployment benefit entitlement lengths for … highly disputed reform induced a considerable decline in unemployment incidence among older workers. It thus sealed an …

In this paper, we estimate the effect of different macro and micro variables on thedistribution 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 …

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. The paper analyses the effects of this reform on the risk of … unemployment and on unemployment duration of the older unemployed aged 54-56. This group lost a smooth early retirement path via …

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

dependent competing risks. We apply our framework to empirically evaluate the effect of unemployment benefits on observed … migration of unemployed workers in Germany. Our findings weakly indicate that reducing the entitlement length for unemployment …

finite sample properties and our implementation appears to be very fast. A small application to German unemployment duration … level of social benefits has a strong impact on the length of long term unemployment for low earners and fertility is … related with longer unemployment periods of females. …