Using a competing-risk framework of exiting unemployment to jobs in a local or a distant labor market area, this paper …

wir alle individuellen und regionenspezifischen Determinanten, die einen Einfluss auf die Länge der Arbeitslosigkeit haben …

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 …

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 …