Short- and long-term unemployment

Economics Letters

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 107-112

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

^a Research Department   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

J64; J65; Semi parametric hazard model; Time varying coefficients; Unemployment duration; Unobserved heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034381565     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(99)00187-1     Document Type: Article

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