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 …

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 …

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 …

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 … proxies of unemployment in the IABS as introduced by Fitzenberger/Wilke (2004). The first proxy comprises all periods of …

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 …

us to assess the effect of job search methods on escape rates from unemployment and, in a new departure, the impact of …

1996. I do not find any effects of unemployment duration on the transition from unemployment to selfemployment. Moreover …

. As an application we estimate nonparametric conditional quantile functions with German administrative unemployment … duration data. …