This paper analyzes the persistence of poverty in Sweden using a hazard rate model based on multiple spells. The model … disposable income obtained from individual tax files. Poverty is defined using information on annual minimum needs standards … determined by the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare. The data indicates that poverty rates are highest for immigrants …

-mixed proportional-hazard approach with three durations: the waiting time until treatment, the untreated duration from the baseline, and … the treated duration from the treatment timing. To implement the proposal, we use semiparametric piecewise … subsidy effects on unemployment duration to find about 11.1 month reduction. -- treatment effect ; duration ; treatment timing …

This paper examines the effect of the replacement rule of the Finnish sickness insurance system on the duration of … statistically significant point estimate of the elasticity of the duration of sickness absence with respect to the replacement rate …

In 2001 and 2002, Sweden introduced several unemployment insurance reforms. A major innovation in the first reform was … among men and women. The two reforms in conjunction are estimated to have increased the expected duration of unemployment … among men but to have decreased the duration of unemployment among women. The overall effect on the duration of unemployment …