In West Germany during the 1980's, law changes cut the level of unemployment compensation for the unemployed without … children, and extended the duration of unemployment insurance for unemployed aged 42 and over, leaving other groups unaffected … in Germany, using the German Socio-Economic Panel. The analysis of the cut in level is inconclusive. However, the …

the low-cost short-term training schemes are cost efficient in the short run. -- training ; program evaluation ; duration …

functional form of the hazard of changing a price, the effect of firm and market characteristics on the duration of prices, and … determinants of the duration of retail interest rates are the cumulated change in the money market interest rates and the policy … adjustments. -- price stickiness ; interest rate pass-through ; duration analysis ; hazard rate …