Ralf Wilke joined the University of Nottingham as a Lecturer in the School of Economics in August 2007. His research interests are in the areas of Microeconometrics and Applied Econometrics. He has published in leading international journals such as Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Applied Econometrics and Regional Studies. Moreover, he has publications in the leading German journals. He has successfully completed externally funded research projects and is currently the principal investigator of an ESRC first grant. He is a research fellow of the ZEW Mannheim and a visiting research fellow of the PSI London.

1. A Copula Model for Dependent Competing Risks, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society C, forthcoming, with Simon Lo

2. Unemployment Durations in West-Germany Before and After the Reform of the Unemployment Compensation System During the 1980s, German Economic Review, forthcoming, with Bernd Fitzenberger.

3. Implementing Box-Cox Quantile Regression, Econometric Reviews, forthcoming, with Bernd Fitzenberger and Xuan Zhang.

4. Reform of Unemployment Compensation in Germany : A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis Using Register Data, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 27(2), 2009, 176-192, with Sokbae Lee.

5. Unemployment Duration in Germany : Individual and Regional Determinants of Local Job Finding, Migration and Subsidized Employment, Regional Studies, 43(1), 2009, 43-61, with Melanie Arntz.

6. On the Definition of Unemployment and its Implementation in Register Data – The Case of Germany, Schmollers Jahrbuch, 128(3), 2008, 461-488, with Thomas Kruppe, Eva Müller and Laura Wichert.

7. Simple Nonparametric Estimators for Unemployment Duration Analysis, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C, 57, 2008, 117-126, with Laura Wichert.

8. An Application of Cartographic Area Interpolation to Administrative Data from Germany, AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis, 91(2), 2007, 59-80, with Melanie Arntz.

9. Reduction in the long-term unemployment of the Elderly - A success story from Finland, Journal of the European Economic Association, 5(1), 2007, 154-182, with Tomi Kyyrä.

10. Beschäftigung und Arbeitslosigkeit älterer Arbeitnehmer: Eine mikroökonometrische Evaluation der Arbeitslosengeldreform von 1997, Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 227(1), 2007, 65-86, with Eva Müller and Philipp Zahn.

11. Censored Quantile Regression and the Length of Unemployment Periods in West-Germany, Empirical Economics, 31, 2006, 1003-1024, with Elke Lüdemann and Xuan Zhang.

12. Semiparametric Estimation of Consumption Based Equivalence Scales - The Case of Germany, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 21(6), 2006, 781-802.

13. Using Quantile Regression for Duration Analysis, Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv, 90(1), 2006, 103-118, with Bernd Fitzenberger.

1. Wilke, R.A. (2009) Unemployment Duration in the United Kingdom - An Incomplete Data Approach, School of Economics Discussion Paper 09/02, University of Nottingham.

2. Ball, P. and Wilke, R.A. (2009) Job seeker's allowance in Great Britain: How does the regional labour market affect the duration until job finding? School of Economics Discussion Paper 09/03, University of Nottingham.

3. Arntz, Melanie and Ralf Wilke (2008), How Weather Proof is the Construction Sector? Empirical Evidence from Germany. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 08-105, Mannheim.

4. Arntz, Melanie, Simon Lo and Ralf Wilke (2008), Bounds Analysis of Competing Risks: A Nonparametric Evaluation of the Effect of Unemployment Benefits on Migration in Germany, FDZ Methodenreport, 06/2008, IAB Nuremberg.

   An older version appeared as: ZEW Discussion Paper No. 07-049, Mannheim.

5. Fitzenberger, Bernd and Ralf Wilke (2007), New Insights on Unemployment Duration and Post Unemployment Earnings in Germany: Censored Box-Cox Quantile Regression at Work, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 07-007, Mannheim.

6. Arntz, Melanie, Ralf Wilke and Henrik Winterhager (2006), Regionenmatching im Rahmen der Evaluation der Experimentierklausel des § 6c SGB II: Methodische Vorgehensweise und Ergebnisse, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-061, Mannheim.

7. Wilke, Ralf (2003), Semiparametric Estimation of Regression Functions Under Shape Invariance Restrictions, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 03-64, Mannheim.

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