This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un-)employment and wage effects of social security …

Germany, as most other European countries, has been plagued by a persistently high level of long-term unemployment … since the early 1980's. In contrast, long-term unemployment is much less of a problem in the United States. One potential … reason for the different structure of unemployment relates to institutional differences in unemployment compensation systems …

for the dramatic decline in employment and the unprecedented increase in unemployment in the east German economy. …

Although explanations of the persistence of high unemployment in Germany, in particular long-term unemployment, have …, these factors are analyzed based on a microeconometric model of individual transitions from unemployment into employment and … dependence" arising from causal factors and "sorting" effects due to unobserved heterogeneity in the unemployment pool. I also …

for state dependence effects in male unemployment behaviour. Estimation of the model is based on the marginal likelihood … approach. In the model an individual's unemployment probability at a given point in time within the period 1985 - 1989 depends … on his labour force status in the previous period and on the cumulated duration of past unemployment. Controlling for …

Unemployment duration data derived from retrospective surveys often show an abnormal concentration of responses at … research based on unemployment duration data derived from the retrospective calendar information in the German Socio …-Economic Panel, where a very high proportion of all unemployment spells beginning in January or end in December of each year. We show …