Abstract: We analyse benefit-entitlement effects and the likely impact of the recent reform of the unemployment … compensation system on the duration of unemployment in Germany on the basis of a flexible discrete-time hazard rate model estimated … for the unemployed who are eligible to means-tested unemployment assistance after the exhaustion of unemployment benefit …

We analyze the effect of imposed benefit sanctions on the unemployment-to-employment transition of unemployed people … entitled to unemployment compensation on the basis of register data from the German Federal Employment Agency. We combine … effects diminish with the elapsed unemployment duration until a sanction is imposed. The limited use of benefit sanctions can …

survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that …

natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between … employment probability about two months after unemployment entry. We observe a significantly lower employment probability for …

This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by … analyze unemployment at the intersection of state-dependence and the reduced opportunity costs of parenthood, distinguishing … UK (1994-2001). The results highlight spurious negative effects of unemployment on family formation among men, which can …

This paper contributes to the policy-relevant question whether self-employment is a way out of (long-term) unemployment …. We estimate the relationship between the entry rate into self-employment and previous (long-term) unemployment on the … measurement errors induced by the pseudo panel structure. We find that previous (long-term) unemployment significantly increases …

This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment …