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Estimation under length-bias and right-censoring: An application to unemployment duration analysis for married women

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  • Jacobo De UNA-ALvarez
  • M. Soledad Otero-GirALdez
  • Gema ALvarez-Llorente

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In this work we analyse unemployment duration for married women in Spain, using the Labour Force Survey (LFS) of the Spanish Institute for Statistics, 1987-1997. Consistent non-parametric estimation of the unemployment survival function is provided. Since the available data are length- biased, a suitable correction of the Kaplan-Meier product-limit estimator is motivated and used for the referred analysis. The accuracy of parametric models is checked by means of goodness-of-fit plots--a graphical tool that requires preliminary estimation of the survival. Structural features of the associated hazard (as monotonicity and unimodality) are explored.

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  • Jacobo De UNA-ALvarez & M. Soledad Otero-GirALdez & Gema ALvarez-Llorente, 2003. "Estimation under length-bias and right-censoring: An application to unemployment duration analysis for married women," Journal of Applied Statistics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(3), pages 283-291.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:japsta:v:30:y:2003:i:3:p:283-291
    DOI: 10.1080/0266476022000030066
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