Cox regression models for unemployment duration in Romania, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, and Macedonia

Romanian Journal of Economic Forecasting

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 81-104

  Kavkler, Alenka ^a   Dǎnǎcicǎ, Daniela Emanuela ^b   Babucea, Ana Gabriela ^b   Bićanić, Ivo ^c   Böhm, Bernhard ^d   Tevdovski, Dragan ^e   Toševska, Katerina ^e   Boršič, Darja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b Faculty of Education Science Law and Public Administration   (Romania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^d VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^e SS CYRIL AND METHODIUS UNIVERSITY   (Macedonia)

Author keywords

Cox proportional hazards model; Cox regression model with a time dependent covariate; Survival analysis; Unemployment duration

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349413324     PISSN: 15826163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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