larger earnings fluctuations than employees and that they frequently transition into unemployment. Given the self …-employed are not eligible to unemployment insurance, I analyze the provision of benefits targeted at these risks using a calibrated …. This exercise suggests that extending the current US unemployment insurance scheme to the self-employed comes with a clear …

The empirical literature on unemployment almost exclusively focuses on the duration of distinct unemployment spells. In … unemployment (defined as the total length of all unemployment spells over a 25-year period). This new perspective enables us to … answer questions regarding the long-term distribution and determinants of unemployment for West German birth cohorts 1950 …

The empirical literature on unemployment almost exclusively focuses on the duration of distinct unemployment spells. In … unemployment (defined as the total length of all unemployment spells over a 25-year period). This new perspective enables us to … answer questions regarding the longterm distribution and determinants of unemployment for West German birth cohorts 1950 …

rates of unemployment during their whole prime-age work career. Building on a unique combination of micro- and macro data …

Germany. The analysis distinguishes four types of career interruptions: unemployment, parental leave for female workers …

In this study, we investigate the nexus between career risk aversion and unemployment duration based on German survey … from risk aversion on unemployment duration. However, we find significant effects when controlling for a non-linear or time … varying correlation between risk aversion and unemployment duration. Our results show that risk aversion is important when …