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 …

We analyse benefit-entitlement effects and the likely impact of the recent reform of the unemployment compensation … system on the duration of unemployment in Germany on the basis of a flexible discrete-time hazard rate model estimated on pre … unemployed who are eligible to means-tested unemployment assistance after the exhaustion of unemployment benefit, but not for …

We analyze the effect of imposed benefit sanctions on the unemployment-to-employment transition of unemployed people … entitled to unemployment compensation on the basis of register data from the German Federal Employment Agency. We combine … effects diminish with the elapsed unemployment duration until a sanction is imposed. The limited use of benefit sanctions can …

We analyze the effect of imposed benefit sanctions on the unemployment-to-employment transition of unemployed people … entitled to unemployment compensation on the basis of register data from the German Federal Employment Agency. We combine … effects diminish with the elapsed unemployment duration until a sanction is imposed. The limited use of benefit sanctions can …

We analyze the effect of imposed benefit sanctions on the unemployment-to-employment transition of unemployed people … entitled to unemployment compensation on the basis of register data from the German Federal Employment Agency. We combine … effects diminish with the elapsed unemployment duration until a sanction is imposed. The limited use of benefit sanctions can …

We analyze the effect of imposed benefit sanctions on the unemployment-to-employment transition of unemployed people … entitled to unemployment compensation on the basis of register data from the German Federal Employment Agency. We combine … effects diminish with the elapsed unemployment duration until a sanction is imposed. The limited use of benefit sanctions can …

This paper contributes to the policy-relevant question whether self-employment is a way out of (long-term) unemployment …. We estimate the relationship between the entry rate into self-employment and previous (long-term) unemployment on the … measurement errors induced by the pseudo panel structure. We find that previous (long-term) unemployment significantly increases …