This paper assesses the importance of reverse causality when evaluating the impact of training duration for unemployed … workers. We use planned duration as an instrumental variable for actual duration. Our results suggest that the potential … endogeneity of exits seems to be only relevant in the lower and upper part of the treatment duration distribution …

In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income during job search by taking up … the duration of unemployment, yet also giving unemployed individuals more time to search for better and more stable jobs … evaluate the impact of marginal employment on unemployment duration and subsequent job quality, we consider a sample of fresh …

individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit generosity, either in terms of benefit duration or … entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite … the disincentive effect of UI on unemployment duration, UI benefit generosity may also increase job match quality by …

both unemployment and employment duration. Our analysis uses a rich administrative longitudinal data set for Germany where … unemployment. Long-term training schemes increase the average duration of employment spells more strongly than short-term training …. However, they increase the expected unemployment duration if they are started early during unemployment. This negative short …

for children significantly reduces the duration ofself-employment ventures for both men and women in many, but not all, of …

duration of study and the probability of actually graduating with a degree. While there is an extensive literature on the … a discrete-time duration model allowing for competing risks to account for different exit states (graduation and dropout … that the duration of study is responsive to the type of financial support a student receives. There are three main results …

declining public pensions levels due to reforms made necessary by demographic change. In 2001, Germany introduced the Riester …