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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

. 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 …

Using a competing-risk framework of exiting unemployment to jobs in a local or a distant labor market area, this paper … investigates whether unemployed individuals in West Germany choose search strategies that favor migrating out of declining regions … indicate that unemployed in West Germany are responsive to local labor market conditions and are more likely to leave regions …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

This paper analyzes changes in the risk of unemployment and changes in the distribution of unemployment duration for … length of unemployment duration. A large share of long term unemployment with only few exits to employment is observed in … the 26 to 41 years old working population in West-Germany during the 1980ties and 1990ties. The comprehensive IAB …