entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite … the disincentive effect of UI on unemployment duration, UI benefit generosity may also increase job match quality by … unemployment benefits in Germany, which increases from 12 months to 18 months at the age of 45, to identify the effect of extended …

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 …

This paper studies the effect of unemployment benefits on the unemployment and subsequent employment duration using … unemployment and subsequent employment duration for the recipients is statistically significant for the short-term unemployed in … individual data from the European Community Household Panel, for France, Germany, and the UK. The empirical analysis is based on …

) extensions can be used as instrumental variables (IV) for unemployment duration. Using a regression discontinuity design, the … substantial negative effects of unemployment duration on wages of 0.8% per month …This paper provides quasi-experimental estimates of the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Using …

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

This paper empirically analyzes the distribution of unemployment durations in West Germany before and after the changes … Germany. We introduce two proxies for unemployment, since the data do not involve a precise economic definition of … during the mid 1980s in the maximum entitlement periods for unemployment benefits for elderly unemployed. The analysis is …

entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite … the disincentive effect of UI on unemployment duration, UI benefit generosity may also increase job match quality by … unemployment benefits in Germany, which increases from 12 months to 18 months at the age of 45, to identify the effect of extended …

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 … parametric model assumptions. We identify a systematic increase in unemployment duration in response to the reform in samples …

We compare information on the length of unemployment spells contained in the IAB employment subsample (IABS) and in the … German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Due to the lack of information on registered unemployment in the IABS, we use two … proxies of unemployment in the IABS as introduced by Fitzenberger/Wilke (2004). The first proxy comprises all periods of …

claiming unemployment insurance benefits. Then, we explore the effect of potential benefit duration on the transitions to … extend their benefit duration by up to 90 days. The maximum number of days of this 'passive sickness benefit' was halved in … duration was cut by 45 days. However, we find that job finding hazard on the week after benefit exhaustion increased more for …