individual unemployment benefit spell durations. We compare a period of expansion (2005-2007) and the recent recession (2009 … particularly strong in the first year of the spell. Moreover, slight negative duration dependence is found, especially for stable … jobs in the expansion period until the time of unemployment benefit expires. Individuals who are most affected by the …

were less affected than East Germans. For short-term unemployed the effect is increasing over unemployment duration while …In 2005, the unemployment benefits for long-term unemployed were reduced in Germany. We investigate the effect of this … reform on the transition probability from unemployment to employment using a large German administrative spell data set (SIAB …

' reemployment wages on average, but did not affect wages conditional on unemployment duration. Resulting IV estimates imply … substantial negative effects of unemployment duration on wages of 0.8% per month. …This paper estimates the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Job search theory implies that if …

This paper investigates the determinants of German long-term unemployment. In particular a microeconometric event … factors such as receiving unemployment benefits have on the length of unemployment. The paper further discusses the advantages … unemployment. This is an important finding in terms of economic policy because it sheds light into appropriate policy measures that …

unemployment duration in Germany. Due to substantial differences with respect to labour market outcomes we follow a stratified … approach with respect to gender and ethnicity. To analyze unemployment duration comprehensively, dynamic duration time models … are used in which covariate effects are allowed to vary smoothly with unemployment duration and others enter the model in …

role for the cyclicality of the unemployment outflow rate, although the contribution of the duration of unemployment is … over the course of the recession. -- Gross worker flows ; unemployment duration ; decomposition analysis ; Blinder-Oaxaca … significant. In contrast, composition effects dampen the cyclicality of the unemployment inflow rate considerably. We further …

-cognitive skills have a predictive power on unemployment transitions. -- non-cognitive skills ; dynamic random effects model … ; unemployment persistence …

-based data set covering the period 1981-1990. The analysis is performed by estimation of reduced form transition models, the … unemployment and labour market exclusion. The main findings of the study are that low levels of education and working experience … unemployment and nonparticipation. There is also evidence of budget constraints that eventually lead to decreasing reservation …

Diamond (1994) that an individual's probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases … genuine duration dependence will be stronger the more depressed the labour market. In conflict with this prediction this study … provides persuasive empirical evidence that the pattern of negative genuine duration dependence does not change over the …

This study examines individuals' unemployment experiences from the age of 18 up to the age of 35 using a large panel of … administrative records on unemployment related benefit claims of men in the United Kingdom over the past two decades. The main focus … is on the extent to which individuals' unemployment experiences are affected by regional and skill differences, i …