TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Riphahn, Regina T.
AU  - Wunder, Christoph
        TI  - State Dependence in Welfare Receipt: Transitions Before and After a Reform
        PY  - 2015/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 9035
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp9035
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - unemployment benefit II
KW  - state dependence
KW  - social assistance
KW  - immigration
KW  - dynamic multinomial logit
        ER  -