We estimate the effect of a shortening of unemployment benefit entitlements on unemployment duration. Previous studies … effect. We find evidence that the unemployed with higher pre-unemployment earnings are more likely to enter full …-in-differences ; unemployment duration ; unemployment benefits …

We estimate the effect of a shortening of unemployment benefit entitlements on unemployment duration. Previous studies … effect. We find evidence that the unemployed with higher pre-unemployment earnings are more likely to enter full …

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 …

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 …

cross country analysis of unemployment experience. We investigate the reliability of these data and find that 26% of … unemployed respondents misreported retrospectively their unemployment status in the subsequent interview. We observe large …

This paper analyzes changes in the risk of unemployment and changes in the distribution of unemployment duration for … employment subsample 1975-1997 is used for the analysis. It contains employment and unemployment trajectories of about 500 …, marital status etc. we identify significant differences in the first three quintiles of the unemployment duration distribution …

In this paper, we estimate the effect of different macro and micro variables on the distribution of unemployment … duration in West Germany using censored quantile regressions. We analyze unemployment periods of more than 91,000 observations … indicating the macroeconomic environment such as the unemployment rate have a weak effect only. On the other hand, variables …

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 is … Germany. We introduce two proxies for unemployment, since the data do not involve a precise economic definition of …

Economic theory suggests that an extension of the maximum length of entitlement for unemployment benefits increases the … 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 …

This paper analyzes changes in the risk of unemployment and changes in the distribution of unemployment duration for … employment subsample 1975- 1997 is used for the analysis. It contains employment and unemployment trajectories of about 500 … length of unemployment duration. A large share of long term unemployment with only few exits to employment is observed in …