Censored quantile regressions and the length of unemployment periods in West Germany

Empirical Economics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1003-1024

  Lüdemann, Elke ^a   Wilke, Ralf A ^b   Zhang, Xuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

Author keywords

Administrative data; Censored quantile regression; Unemployment duration

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE FRAMEWORK; DATA SET; EMPLOYMENT; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; MACROECONOMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNEMPLOYMENT;

GERMAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC;

EID: 33750103560     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-006-0065-6     Document Type: Article

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