the employment spell, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) from 1985 to 2002. Using a statistical … matching approach, we find that job exit rates are initially much higher if the employment spell began with an FTC. However …, exit rates fall below those of comparable spells spent entirely in permanent employment after a few years time. This …

between long and short employment spells within establishments. Using the Cox partial likelihood estimator, we then examine …

durations are matched to firms offering stable employment (and vice versa). An extension of the model to a competing …

sanctions on the drop-out from welfare and the transition to employment. The estimated local average treatment effect (LATE) is …

We estimate the effects of hiring subsidies for older workers on transitions from unemployment to employment in Germany …. Consistent support for an employment effect of hiring subsidies can only be found for women in East Germany. Concerning other … of unemployed jobseekers in Germany and was specifically made available for our purposes from administrative data …

Job mobility and employment durations can be explained by different theoretical approaches, such as job matching or … durations in the employment spell. Standard empirical techniques, such as hazard rate analysis, cannot deal with this problem …. In this paper, we apply censored quantile regression techniques to estimate employment durations of male workers in …

administration has a negative effect on the transition of male welfare recipients to self-sufficient employment, but it does not … affect employment in combination with continuing welfare support. No significant effects were found for women. -- Welfare …

We analyse the effects of specific measures for older employees (SMOE) on employment duration of workers aged 40 and … heterogeneity and correct for stock-sampling. We find a positive effect of mixed-aged team work on employment duration and a … negative effect of a part-time scheme addressed at older workers. Employment duration does not appear to be related to other …

are associated with a higher probability of employing atypical work, which suggests that these forms of employment are … reducing dismissal protection decreases the demand for fixed-term employment. …