Full text: Applications of event history analysis in life course research

287 - 
measures this. The variable HAHE is the respondent's 
average wage rate in 1981. It is here used to measure the 
respondent's resources in the manner suggested by the 
conception of the search process as a job shift process. 
This wage rate will be partly endogenous to the unemployment 
process, and a better measure would be the respondent's 
predicted wage rate (Atkinson, Gomulka, and Micklewright, 
1984). An attempt was made to obtain predicted wage rates 
using variables (education and experience) available in the 
present analysis to estimate a wage equation for the whole 
sample of male heads. The resulting predicted wage rates 
for the unemployed did not have a significant effect on the 
reemployment rates and the apparent unreliability bias other 
coefficients. Hence, despite the possible endogeniety, the 
actual wage rates were used. 
In some spells, 32 to be exact, the unemployed lost 
unemployment compensation during the spell. 
This was taken 
into account in computing the hourly unemployment compensa¬ 
tion. In addition, the unemployment compensation variable 
is treated as a time varying co-variate in the analysis. 
Finally, the time dependent co-variate NBF was constructed 
to indicate that unemployment compensation was lost. 
The measure of the duration of the unemployment spell was 
obtained using information about the duration in weeks of 
the most recent spell in 1981 or the number of weeks of 
unemployment completed for those unemployed at the time of 
interview. As shown in Table 1, there is a considerable 
amount of censoring present. Given the censoring, the most 
informative description of these data is provided by the 
Kaplan-Meier estimate of the survivor function providing an 
estimate in the presence of censoring of F(t), that is the 
proportion remaining unemployed by time t. Selected values 
of the Survivor function are presented in Table 2.
	        
Waiting...

Note to user

Dear user,

In response to current developments in the web technology used by the Goobi viewer, the software no longer supports your browser.

Please use one of the following browsers to display this page correctly.

Thank you.

powered by Goobi viewer