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 …

; unemployment duration ; experiment ; activation programs … also find that the quality of the post-unemployment jobs was not affected by the activation program. Both findings confirm … that activation programs mainly work because they are compulsory and unemployed don't like them. -- Unemployment insurance …

by comparing the future situation of ("treated") unemployed entering into FTCs after a particular unemployment duration … employment and unemployment. The empirical analysis is based on propensity score matching methods, obtaining the effects of FTCs … persons entering into FTCs after a certain number of month of unemployment are reasonable. A first counterfactual is never to …

wages or increasing search intensity, as unemployment spells become very long. We discuss some policy implications of our … parameters of which are interpreted within the framework of search theory mixed with social psychological theories regarding … unemployment and labour market exclusion. The main findings of the study are that low levels of education and working experience …

This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with two destination … polynomial hazard function to test for the presence of two-sources of defective risks: search involving a random process of … unlucky draws that yields a non-proper duration distribution; and a split-population model in which the decision by some …

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 …

for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum …-experimental situation from which a lot can be learned about the impact of unemployment insurance rules on the dynamics of employment …, unemployment, and wages. We find that the REBP led to a tremendous increase in unemployment, which was due to both an increase in …

The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This paper … evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 …