Based on new administrative data for Germany covering entrances into job creation schemes between July 2000 and May … into quarters, regional (East and West Germany) as well as gender differences are considered in the estimation. As matching … influences. The results in terms of employment present a mixed picture. For West Germany, most of the estimates are insignificant …

on the individual unemployment duration in West Germany. By applying a multivariate mixed proportional hazards model, we …

characteristics, product type and market structure. Specifically, I show that the duration of exporting a product to Germany is longer … for just a few, often only one to three, years. In this paper, I examine empirically the duration in German import trade … for products obtained from countries that are economically large and geographically close to Germany; for products with …