Obben, James; Engelbrecht, Hans-Jurgen; Thompson, V. Wesley - In: Applied Economics Letters 9 (2002) 1, pp. 43-46
A logit model of the incidence of long-term unemployment is estimated using a random sample of completed unemployment spells in New Zealand over the period 1988-97. The regressions results are sensible, but the predictive power of the model seems to depend on the share of long-term unemployed in...