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 …

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 … unemployment wages. A high wage replacement rate in the low wage sector seem to considerably elongate the duration of unemployment …

Germany, as most other European countries, has been plagued by a persistently high level of long-term unemployment … since the early 1980's. In contrast, long-term unemployment is much less of a problem in the United States. One potential … reason for the different structure of unemployment relates to institutional differences in unemployment compensation systems …

unemployment and on unemployment duration of the older unemployed aged 54-56. This group lost a smooth early retirement path via …In 1997, the German government enacted a reform of the unemployment insurance system which lead to a reduction of the … maximum entitlement length for unemployment benefits. The paper analyses the effects of this reform on the risk of …

. 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 …

We analyze different alternatives how a common unemployment insurance system for the euro area (EA) could be designed …-term unemployment and find that it would have absorbed a significant fraction of the unemployment shock in the recent crisis. However, 5 …

individuals. The programme effects are estimated considering the timing of treatment in the individual unemployment spell …. Applying propensity score matching in a dynamic setting where the time until treatment in the unemployment spell is stratified … into quarters, regional (East and West Germany) as well as gender differences are considered in the estimation. As matching …