Job seeker's allowance in Great Britain: How does theregional labour market aect the duration until job finding?

Employing a large individual-level administrative dataset from Great Britain, coveringthe period 1999-2005, we analyse the factors inuencing the length of unemployment benetsclaimant periods with subsequent transition to re-employment. To this end, this individual-level data is merged with a group of regional indicators to control for relevant regional labourmarket characteristics. From a methodological point of view, we adopt a exible censoredquantile regression approach to estimating conditional re-employment hazards. Our resultsindicate that the individual characteristics of an unemployed person are generally more im-portant than the regional labour market conditions..