There are large spatial disparities in unemployment durations across the 1,300 municipalities in the Paris region (Ile-de-France). In order to characterize these imbalances, we estimate a proportional hazard model stratified by municipalityon an exhaustive dataset of all unemployment spells...

Let, y, a binary outcome, v a continuous explanatory variable and x someother explanatory variables. Assume that the population distribution of the random variablew = (y, v, x) satisfies Monotone (1) and Large Support (2) assumptions: (1) E(y | v, x) ismonotone in v and (2) E(y | v, x) varies...