Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20314 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1079
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper proposes a new econometric estimation method for analyzing the probability of leaving unemployment using uncompleted spells from repeated cross-section data, which can be especially useful when panel data are not available. The proposed method-ofmoments- based estimator has two important features: (1) it estimates the exit probability at the individual level and (2) it does not rely on the stationarity assumption of the inflow composition. We illustrate and gauge the performance of the proposed estimator using Spanish Labor Force Survey data, and analyze the changes in distribution of unemployment between the 1980s and 1990s during a period of labor market reform. We find that the relative probability of leaving unemployment for the short-term unemployed compared to the long-term unemployed becomes significantly higher in the 1990s.
Subjects: 
repeated cross-section data
GMM
duration analysis
unemployment
JEL: 
J64
C41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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