Germany implemented comprehensive labour market reforms between 2003 and 2005 that affected the labour market careers of the unemployed in many ways. Based on rich administrative individual data, this note investigates the distribution of unemployment durations by various exit states before and...

Welfare recipients in Germany are allowed to take up supplementary jobs while receiving welfare. The possibility of having a supplementary job was introduced to reduce welfare dependency and facilitate successful labor market integration. In the present study, we use the German Panel Study...