Cox Regression Models for Unemployment Duration in Romania, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, and Macedonia

Alenka Kavkler (), Daniela Dănăcică (), Ana Gabriela Babucea, Ivo Bicanic (), Bernhard Bohm (), Dragan Tevdovski, Katerina Tosevska () and Darja Borsic ()
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Alenka Kavkler: Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Ivo Bicanic: Faculty of Economics, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Bernhard Bohm: Institute of Mathematical Methods in Economics, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Katerina Tosevska: Faculty of Economics, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Macedonia
Darja Borsic: Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor, Slovenia

Journal for Economic Forecasting, 2009, vol. 6, issue 2, 81-104

Abstract: This paper applies the semi-parametric Cox regression approach to model unemployment duration in five Central and Eastern European countries. The Cox proportional hazards models and the Cox regression models with a time-dependent covariate are developed, and the results are interpreted and compared. The impact of the variables age, gender, education level, and region on the hazard ratio is discussed. The results for the time-dependent variable age imply that the longer the unemployment spell lasts, the less pronounced the differences between various age groups are.

Keywords: survival analysis; Cox proportional hazards model; Cox regression model with a time-dependent covariate; unemployment duration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 C24 J60 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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