This paper explores the effects that founding conditions have on the survival of new firms. A regression model which allows us to examine the role played by a number of different features of founding conditions on survival rates was estimated. The effect of founding conditions is estimated...

The U.S. labor market has been experiencing unprecedented high average unemployment duration. The shift in the unemployment duration distribution can be traced back to the early nineties. In this study, censored quantile regression methods are employed to analyze the changes in the US...