the stock-sampling and the possible maximum duration for the transitions from unemployment, household care and disability … to employment. Then we decompose the difference in expected duration between the immigrant groups and the Dutch into the …

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality … using a structural equation model suggested by Conti et al. (2010). We extend their model by allowing for a duration … detailed measures of cognitive ability and family background at age 12. The data are subsequently linked to the mortality …