. This dynamic was associated to increases in the entry flows to unemployment and the average duration of these episodes. The … unemployment duration of the spells. Second, to test the validity of the proportional assumption imposed in most of the studies … about unemployment duration as well as to propose the use of an alternative econometric method. Censored quantile …

In this paper we study the effects of unemployment benefit duration and the business cycle on unemployment duration. We … construct durations for individuals entering unemployment from a longitudinal sample of Spanish men in 1987-1994. Estimated … discrete hazard models indicate that receipt of unemployment benefits significantly reduces the hazard of leaving unemployment …