State Dependence in Unemployment Incidence: Evidence for British Men Revisited

Wiji Arulampalam ()

No 630, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Abstract: The issues of persistence in the observed labour market status of men are investigated using the British Household Panel Survey for the period 1991-97. The paper extends previous work in many directions. In particular, problems of endogenous initial conditions, and unobserved heterogeneity, are addressed within the context of different definitions of unemployment. In addition, allowance is also made to accommodate the ‘stayer’ phenomenon in the state of employment. All these were found to be very important in the estimation of the effect of scarring.

Keywords: dynamic binary panel models; unemployment; state dependence; unobserved heterogeneity; initial conditions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C15 C23 C25 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002-11
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