by comparing the post-program duration of employment for the two programs. In addition, we focus in some detail on the … selection process may bias the effect estimate in the non-linear duration model that we use. Simulations help us to determine …

This paper focuses on the effects of vocational training programmes on the duration of unemployment in Eastern Germany … possible locking-in effects by separate estimation of in- and after-programme effects. Regarding several different programme …

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 seems to considerably elongate the duration of unemployment …

intensity and lowering reservation wages. We estimate the parameters of multivariate duration models taking selection based on …

duration data …

canonical model is Rubin's causal model, which is close to Roy's selectivity model. This model is the relevant framework for …-treated individuals. For each set of assumptions (selectivity on observable or unobservable characteristics, conditional independence … between outcomes and treatment indicators, etc.), we present the most adapted estimation method. We put a special emphasis on …