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 …

a plausibly exogenous change to patent duration. Second, the nature of the law change meant that the patent duration … advantage of the TRIPS-induced law change to empirically estimate the impact of patent duration on innovation. I find evidence … attempt to empirically estimate its response to a major change to patent duration, from the TRIPS agreement …

search behavior using a novel panel data set of newly-unemployed individuals in Germany. Consistent with our theoretical …

his firm. Technology transfer can take place even years after leaving the mother institution. A duration analysis reveals …

positive short- and long-term effects of benefit sanctions which are robust for men and women in East and West Germany. The … effects diminish with the elapsed unemployment duration until a sanction is imposed. The limited use of benefit sanctions can …

This paper assesses the dynamics of treatment effects arising from variation in the duration of training. We use German …