standard and international trade. The estimation results allow us to formulate some interesting policy conclusions. …

fertilizer, animalmanure and compost using Duration analysis. Results revealed that factors that influencedtiming of the adoption …

We introduce a duration model that allows for unobserved cumulative individual-specific shocks, which are likely to be … important in explaining variations in duration outcomes, such as length of life and time spent unemployed. The model is also a …-spell duration analysis in economics and the other social sciences. We apply the IMPH model to study the relationships among …

differences across workers over the business cycle and their implications for overall job duration. Evidence from the National … Longitudinal Survey of The Youth (NLSY) 1979-2006 suggests that average (overall) job duration is pro-cyclical, once controlling … for worker composition. At the exit margin, jobs ending in recessions are of systematically shorter duration than jobs …

analysed increased the percentage of reorganisations and decreased bankruptcy duration through improving the quality of …

the one hand, lower reservation wages reduce unemployment duration, but on the other hand, agents have shorter spells of … analysis of commuting. Empirical results based on estimation of the zero-inflated negative binomial model support the …

ofincidence and duration and find that most variables have the same effect on both.Unemployment is concentrated among relatively … well-educated first time job seekerswho come from the middle classes. Mean duration of unemployment is close to fouryears …