Based on theoretical models of job mobility this paper provides an empirical analysis of job durations in West Germany using information from two cohorts of new entrants to the labor force. We adopt an accelerated failure time model allowing for unobserved heterogeneity. Thereby we combine the...

This paper evaluates the impact of large changes in the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) in different economic environments on labour supply, job matches, and search behaviour. We show that differences in eligibility thresholds by exact age give rise to a valid regression discontinuity...