estimation of Timing-of-Events (ToE) models. We exploit rich Swedish data of unemployed job-seekers with information on … participation in a training program to simulate placebo treatment durations. We first use these simulations to examine which … covariates are key confounders to be included in selection models. The joint inclusion of specific short-term employment history …

the program. The literature uses linear probability models and (Cox) proportional hazard models to predict duration … outcomes. These either focus on one threshold duration or impose proportionality. In this paper we propose a nonparametric … work from unemployment insu rance, we do not find that the weighting method outperforms Cox survivor function predictions. …

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 …

certain time in unemployment will leave unemployment before training while others will be trained later. We are interested in … certain state (e.g. unemployment) to be eligible for a treatment, treatments may commence at different points in time, and the … outcome of interest is realized after the individual left the initial state. An example concerns the effect of training on …

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 …

estimation of Timing-of-Events (ToE) models. We exploit rich Swedish data of unemployed job-seekers with information on … participation in a training program to simulate placebo treatment durations. We first use these simulations to examine which … covariates are key confounders to be included inselection models. The joint inclusion of specific short-term employment history …

estimation of Timing-of-Events (ToE) models. We exploit rich Swedish data of unemployed job-seekers with information on … participation in a training program to simulate placebo treatment durations. We first use these simulations to examine which … covariates are key confounders to be included in selection models. The joint inclusion of specific short-term employment history …

We estimate the effect of a shortening of unemployment benefit entitlements on unemployment duration. Previous studies …-in-differences ; unemployment duration ; unemployment benefits … on the same or related problems have not taken into account that the competing risks duration model is not identified and …

affected the transition probability to employment. Additionally, we inspect how this effect varies over unemployment duration …In 2005, the unemployment compensation for long-term unemployed was reduced in Germany. We examine how this reform … raised the transition probability of short-term unemployed. The effect is even higher, the longer the unemployment duration …