the program. The literature uses linear probability models and (Cox) proportional hazard models to predict duration … outcomes. These either focus on one threshold duration or impose proportionality. In this paper we propose a nonparametric …

Since the early 1980s, the econometric analysis of duration variables has become widespread. This chapter provides an … overview of duration analysis, with an emphasis on the specification and identification of duration models, and with special … attention to models for multiple durations. Most of the chapter deals with so-called reduced-form duration models, notably the …

investigate the effects of benefits on unemployment duration. The administrative data used clearly pinpoints total unemployment … of benefits are stronger and more homogeneous when the maximum duration of unemployment insurance benefit is longer …

unemployment duration. It may very well be that dropping out, i.e. attrition, often occurs due to employment. In the analysis, we …

the conventional univariate Kaplan-Meier estimator for the hazard rate to multivariate right censored duration data and … finite sample properties and our implementation appears to be very fast. A small application to German unemployment duration … duration data. …