. This dynamic was associated to increases in the entry flows to unemployment and the average duration of these episodes. The … unemployment duration of the spells. Second, to test the validity of the proportional assumption imposed in most of the studies … about unemployment duration as well as to propose the use of an alternative econometric method. Censored quantile …

We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from …. The distribution of the inflow composition is estimated along with the other parameters. The estimation method deals with … differences between the micro and macro unemployment definitions. The results also show to what extent the unemployment duration …