High survey nonresponse in unemployment duration studies may have a strong effect on inference if the so called causal mechanism is present. A robust method of testing the causal nonresponse is proposed for data sets where survey information can be combined with complete administrative records....

En este trabajo se propone un modelo jerárquico Gamma para el estudio bayesiano de tiempos de desempleo con covariables utilizando técnicas de análisis de supervivencia. Se trata de un modelo de efectos aleatorios o modelo de poblaciones debido a su estructura jerárquica, que permite la...

Often, economic policies are directed toward outcomes that are measured as counts. Examples of economic variables that use a basic counting scale are number of children as an indicator of fertility, number of doctor visits as an indicator of health care demand, and number of days absent from...