Unemployment Durations of French Young People

d’Addio, Anna Cristina
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d’Addio, Anna Cristina: UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES); UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)

No 1998021, LIDAM Discussion Papers IRES from Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES)

Abstract: Using the 1990-1992 wave of the French Labour Force Survey this paper analyzes the effects of different factors on the probability of leaving unemployment of French young people. It also studies duration dependence of the hazard rate while controlling for unobserved heterogeneity separately for men and women. A semi-parametric and two parametric hazard functions have been estimated using grouped duration data. A gamma mixing distribution is used to capture individual unobserved heterogeneity. When the correction for unobserved heterogeneity is not incorporated the model chosen is (for both groups) the Weibull that shows modelled the exponential hazard function (no duration dependence) id retained and again foe both population analysed. This result seems to suggest that observed true negative duration dependence should be explained more trough unobserved heterogeneity than trough structural factors, a conclusion to be thought in terms of the mover-stayer paradigm.

Keywords: proportional hazard models; grouped duration data; discrete-time data; unobserved heterogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C41 C52 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35
Date: 1998-08-01
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