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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …, marital status etc. we identify significant differences in the first three quintiles of the unemployment duration distribution …

competing risks. We analyse the applicability of this estimator by means of simulations and real world unemployment duration …

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

dependent competing risks. We apply our framework to empirically evaluate the effect of unemployment benefits on observed … migration of unemployed workers in Germany. Our findings weakly indicate that reducing the entitlement length for unemployment …

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 …

Unemployment information in individual level register data depends on institutional settings, administrative procedures … German legal unemployment definitions for the Sample of the Integrated Employment Biographies (IEBS). The IEBS belongs to a … show large differences in the number of spells and the unemployment duration across implementations. This suggests that …