Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …

Using a competing-risk framework of exiting unemployment to jobs in a local or a distant labor market area, this paper … investigates whether unemployed individuals in West Germany choose search strategies that favor migrating out of declining regions … indicate that unemployed in West Germany are responsive to local labor market conditions and are more likely to leave regions …

This paper studies the impact of unemployment benefits on unemployment duration for East Germany using data from the … just prior to exhausting UI. -- Unemployment duration ; hazard rate ; unemployment benefit ; East Germany … German Socio-Economic Panel. It concentrates on exit from unemployment into employment. Estimation results of a discrete …