@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp9035,
            	author={Riphahn, Regina T. and Wunder, Christoph},
            	title={State Dependence in Welfare Receipt: Transitions Before and After a Reform},
            	year={2015},
	month={May},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={9035},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp9035},
	abstract={We study state dependence in welfare receipt and investigate whether welfare transitions changed after a welfare reform. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we apply dynamic multinomial logit estimators and find that state dependence in welfare receipt is not a central feature of the German welfare system. We find that welfare transitions changed after the reform: transitions from welfare to employment became more likely and persistence in welfare and inactivity declined. We observe a large relative increase in transitions from employment to welfare. Immigrants' responsiveness to the labor market situation increased after the reform.},
	keywords={unemployment benefit II;state dependence;social assistance;immigration;dynamic multinomial logit},
            }