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Worker occupational skills and unemployment duration: a competing-risks econometric approach

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  • Ahmed Wassal Elroukh

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This paper explains differences in unemployment duration among unemployed workers by differences in their skills, using the unemployed workers' previous occupation and education level to capture their skills. I use the cumulative incidence approach from the statistics literature, which is a better alternative to the standard survival econometric methods in cases of competing risks. In addition to showing that the standard survival econometric methods are biased, I find that the higher the unemployed worker is on the skill ladder based on their previous occupation, the faster their transition rate to a full-time job. An extra year of education has a positive effect on reducing unemployment duration. Those with a bachelor's degree tend to have the shortest employment duration among all unemployed individuals. However, the impact of education on transitioning from unemployment to a full-time job is less pronounced the higher the unemployed worker's previous occupation is on the skill ladder.

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  • Ahmed Wassal Elroukh, 2024. "Worker occupational skills and unemployment duration: a competing-risks econometric approach," International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 14(3), pages 306-336.
  • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijcome:v:14:y:2024:i:3:p:306-336
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