Consider a setting where a treatment that starts at some point during a spell (e.g. in unemployment) may impact on the hazard rate of the spell duration, and where the impact may be heterogeneous across subjects. We provide Monte Carlo evidence on the feasibility of estimating the distribution...

Large waves of refugees have arrived in Europe on a regular basis in recent decades. We know little about the impact of labour market policies intended to improve the labour market integration of refugees and their reunited family members. Using rich longitudinal data from Norway of the past 30...

The coronavirus outbreak in the global scale has raised the concern about potential risks to the global economy. This research applies the global computable general equilibrium model (CGE) to simulate the economic shocks of Covid-19, taking into account the changes in labor supply, consumption,...

Consider a setting where a treatment that starts at some point during a spell (e.g. in unemployment) may impact on the hazard rate of the spell duration, and where the impact may be heterogeneous across subjects. We provide Monte Carlo evidence on the feasibility of estimating the distribution...

The COVID-19 outbreak in the global scale has raised the concern about severe economic effects caused by the pandemic disease. Extant literature on global pandemic mainly focuses on the direct and indirect economic costs of the disease. However, the global outbreak of public health emergencies...