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 …

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 …

periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and post{unemployment earnings in West Germany. For … the unemployment duration, we estimate censored Box{Cox quantile regression, which is robust with respect to the … the length of benefit entitlement is only of minor importance for the duration of search unemployment and for post …

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 …

quarter of the unemployment spell. For East Germany, none of the groups experiences an improvement of the labour market …Based on new administrative data for Germany covering entrances into job creation schemes between July 2000 and May … individuals. The programme effects are estimated considering the timing of treatment in the individual unemployment spell …

Recent labor market reforms in Germany aim, among other things, at reducing unemployment by restricting passive … contribute to the shortening of unemployment duration. For this purpose, we estimate a semi-parametric duration model with three … unemployment measures, emphasizing local labor market policies and re-structuring public employment services. This paper uses …

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 …