Unemployment durations and the pattern of duration dependence over the business cycle of British males

Empirical Economics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 429-456

  Kalwij, Adriaan ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NETSPAR   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Business cycles; Duration model; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS CYCLE; DATA SET; EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; HETEROGENEITY; LABOR MARKET; LABOR SUPPLY; UNEMPLOYMENT;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77951120838     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-009-0274-x     Document Type: Article

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