Spell durations and the impact of censoring

Michael A. Nolan ()
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Michael A. Nolan: Department of Economics, University of St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9AL, Scotland, UK.

Empirical Economics, 2000, vol. 25, issue 4, 699-714

Abstract: A grouped hazard approach for analysing multiple-spell durations subject to censoring is applied to spells of absence from the workplace. We follow Barmby, Orme and Treble's (1991) procedure for dealing with unobserved heterogeneity, but argue that their treatment of the observed discrete data, and the inherent censoring, is inappropriate and could lead to significant overestimation of duration dependence.

Keywords: spell; durations; ·; censoring; ·; Monte; Carlo; analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C15 C41 J29 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-01-10
Note: received: September 1996/Final version received: June 2000
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