This paper studies how cognitive and social skills in childhood are related to the duration of unemployment in …, parenting activities and school characteristics. -- Unemployment duration ; social skills ; noncognitive skills ; cognitive …

duration of unemployment. Empirical results for the reform of the unemployment compensation system in Germany during the 1980s … unemployment is not directly observed. For this reason we bound the reform effect on unemployment duration over different … parametric model assumptions. We identify a systematic increase in unemployment duration in response to the reform in samples …

This paper estimates the impact of training incidence and duration on employment transitions accounting for the … endogeneity of program participation and duration. We specify a very flexible bivariate random effects probit model for employment … and training participation and we use Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques for estimation. We develop a …

on the individual unemployment duration in West Germany. By applying a multivariate mixed proportional hazards model, we …

the unemployment duration, we estimate censored Box{Cox quantile regression, which is robust with respect to the … the length of benefit entitlement is only of minor importance for the duration of search unemployment and for post … unemployment wages. A high wage replacement rate in the low wage sector seem to considerably elongate the duration of unemployment …