Combining micro and macro unemployment duration data

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 271-309

  Van Den Berg, Gerard J ^a,b,c,d,e   Van Der Klaauw, Bas ^a,f  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TINBERGEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e Institut National de la Statistique et des etudes economiques   (France)

^f Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Business cycle; Duration dependence; Heterogeneity; Seasons; Unemployment composition; Unemployment definition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345859536     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4076(01)00055-0     Document Type: Article

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