One of the most striking features of European labor markets is the high incidence of longterm
unemployment. In this chapter, we review the literature on its causes and consequences …

The volume concentrates on four principal social policy domains; the aged and transition to
retirement; the welfare issues related to profound changes in working life; the risks and …

Since Beck, Katz, and Tucker (1998), the standard method for modeling time dependence in
binary data has been to incorporate time dummies or splined time in logistic regressions …

This article provides evidence that discrete-time duration models can be estimated easily
using widely available, non-specialist software packages. Estimation of duration models …

We estimate dynamic panel data models of unemployment incidence for men using the
British Household Panel Survey. Econometric issues concerning unobserved individual …

In this paper we study the effects of unemployment benefit duration and the business cycle
on unemployment duration. We construct durations for individuals entering unemployment …

The first edition of Applied Health Economics did an expert job of showing how the
availability of large scale data sets and the rapid advancement of advanced econometric …

This paper provides evidence on the effect of unemployment insurance on unemployment
and subsequent employment duration in Europe using individual data from the European …

We use a flexible hazard rate model with unrestricted spell duration and calendar time
effects to analyse a dataset including all Norwegian unemployment spells during the 1990s …

This paper explores the relationship between conventional models for binary response such
as the probit and logit, and the proportional hazard (PH) and related specifications for …