Based on administrative data from the federal employment office in Germany, we apply matching techniques to estimate … being either in regular employment or registered unemployment. Our findings therefore do not lend support to the stepping … future employment prospects. Our results show that unemployed workers who take up a job in the temporary work agency (TWA …

between the three core labor force states, employment, unemployment, and inactivity. The dynamics of these transitions depend … unemployment and transition rates differs between East and West Germany, as well as between the sexes. In East Germany, all … unemployment dynamics is the re-employment rate. …

"Based on administrative data from the federal employment services in Germany, this paper applies statistical matching … employment and unemployment chances of unemployed job seekers. If anything, temporary help work seems to provide an access … techniques to estimate the stepping-stone function to regular employment of temporary help work for unemployed job seekers. Our …