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 …

differ from natives', and if so, how the difference vary with time spent in Sweden and across immigrant cohorts. A unique …

The paper proposes two estimation approaches for duration models that are subject to right censored observations and … selection effects. Main focus is on accelerated duration models and the estimators that are of the limited information type, i …

-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 …