Unemployment duration data derived from retrospective surveys often show an abnormal concentration of responses at … research based on unemployment duration data derived from the retrospective calendar information in the German Socio …-Economic Panel, where a very high proportion of all unemployment spells beginning in January or end in December of each year. We show …

. As an application we estimate nonparametric conditional quantile functions with German administrative unemployment …

This paper evaluates the effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in Germany. Since previous … empirical studies of these measures have been based on relatively small datasets and focussed on East Germany, this is the first …

unemployment duration in Germany. Due to substantial differences with respect to labour market outcomes we follow a stratified … approach with respect to gender and ethnicity. To analyze unemployment duration comprehensively, dynamic duration time models … are used in which covariate effects are allowed to vary smoothly with unemployment duration and others enter the model in …

abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … unemployment duration is positive and significant. Neglecting selectivity leads to an underestimation of the effects in absolute …

abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … unemployment duration is positive and significant. Neglecting selectivity leads to an underestimation of the effects in absolute …