Spell durations with long unemployment insurance periods

Labour Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 153-180

  Bratberg, Espen ^a   Vaage, Kjell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

C41; J64; Natural experiment; Semiparametric hazard model; Unemployment duration

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001222417     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5371(99)00036-6     Document Type: Article

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