The restart effect and the return to full-time stable employment

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 275-288

  Dolton, Peter ^a   O'Neill, Donal ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cox duration model with flexible base line hazard; Duration of unemployment; Experimental statistical policy evaluation; Restart programme

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043096502     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2983174     Document Type: Article

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