%0 Report
        %A Riphahn, Regina T.
%A Wunder, Christoph
        %T State Dependence in Welfare Receipt: Transitions Before and After a Reform
        %D 2015
        %8 2015 May
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 9035
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp9035
        %X 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.
        %K unemployment benefit II
%K state dependence
%K social assistance
%K immigration
%K dynamic multinomial logit