DP4120 Nonparametric Estimation of a Dependent Competing Risks Model for Unemployment Durations
Author(s): | Gerard van den Berg, A Gijsbert C van Lomwel, Jan C. van Ours |
Publication Date: | November 2003 |
Keyword(s): | duration dependence, exit rate, hazard rate, non-participation, unobserved heterogeniety |
JEL(s): | C41, J64 |
Programme Areas: | Labour Economics |
Link to this Page: | cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=4120 |
In this Paper we simultaneously analyse transitions from unemployment to employment and to non-participation. We estimate a dependent competing risks model with non-parametric specifications of the destination-specific duration dependence and unobserved heterogeneity terms, allowing for mutual dependence of the unobserved heterogeneity terms. We use a unique population data set of French unemployment over the period 1988-94, stratified by gender type, duration class and exit state.