, whereby special focus is placed on unemployment duration. The results of the study indicate that in contrast to reservation … wages, offered wages decline considerably with duration of unemployment. This is the main reason that ratios of reservation … wages to offered wages increase rapidly with duration of unemployment; on average, reservation wages begin to exceed offered …

regression coefficients as homogeneous or heterogeneous functions of transition variables. In the estimation process, however … estimation time, rendering their application less appealing. This paper proposes a Lagrange multiplier test indicating whether …

cost estimates. We find a decrease of interview duration of almost 50 percent which translates into a significant increase …. -- Household surveys ; CAPI ; learning curves ; interview duration ; survey planning …

union membership lasts and what are the determinants of its duration. This also allows to conceptualize union membership as … duration is a positive, though declining, function of age. Furthermore, women, ..exi- ble.workers, foreign ones and those …