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 …

This paper investigates whether job stability in western Germany shows any signs of decline and compares the findings … termination. -- job stability ; labor mobility ; duration analysis …

We estimate the effect of a shortening of unemployment benefit entitlements on unemployment duration. Previous studies … on the same or related problems have not taken into account that the competing risks duration model is not identified and … suggest an assumption on the dependence structure between risks which is milder than what conventional duration models assume …

This paper investigates the joint effect of local labor market conditions and individual differences on the duration of … local labor market pressure decreases the duration in self-employment whereas higher perceived (re-unemployment) risk and … gaining comparative advantages. -- self-employment ; duration ; competing risk ; local labor market situation …

unhappy and the need for activation policies. -- happiness ; unemployment duration …

unemployment duration in Germany. Due to substantial differences with respect to labour market outcomes we follow a stratified … approach with respect to gender and ethnicity. To analyze unemployment duration comprehensively, dynamic duration time models … are used in which covariate effects are allowed to vary smoothly with unemployment duration and others enter the model in …

change in SWB predicts job search and unemployment duration. The findings suggest that those who report feeling hurt by …: search effort and unemployment duration are affected by the utility differential between having a job and being unemployed. …