Unemployment duration data derived from retrospective surveys often show an abnormal concentration of responses at … effects may lead to severe biases in estimated coefficients of duration models, in applied work researchers have either … research based on unemployment duration data derived from the retrospective calendar information in the German Socio …

that ignore self-employment. In this paper, we assess how UI benefit duration affects the motivation for creating a startup … benefit duration (PBD) within the German UI system, we find that longer PBD leads to longer actual unemployment duration for … those becoming self-employed. Furthermore, the UI duration elasticity for these individuals is higher than common estimates …