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 …

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 … employment subsample 1975- 1997 is used for the analysis. It contains employment and unemployment trajectories of about 500 …

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 … West Germany. We introduce two proxies for unemployment, since the data do not involve a precise economic definition of …

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 …

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …