Some specification issues in unemployment duration analysis

Labour Economics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 53-66

  T Addison, John ^a,b   Portugal, Pedro ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c BANCO DE PORTUGAL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Accelerated failure time model; Duration dependence; J64; Observed unobserved individual heterogeneity; Proportional hazards model; Unemployment duration

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013234619     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5371(97)00026-2     Document Type: Article

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