Estimating the Effect of Vocational Training on Unemployment Duration in West Germany: A Discrete Hazard Rate Model with Instrumental Variables

Jahrbucher fur Nationalokonomie und Statistik

Volumn 218, Issue 5-6, 1999, Pages 619-646

  Hujer, Reinhard ^a,b   Maurer, Kai Oliver ^a   Wellner, Marc ^a  

^a Johann Wolfgang Goethe University ^*

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Discrete hazard models; Instrumental variables; Selection bias; Vocational training

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347786416     PISSN: 00214027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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