Volume 21, Number 4 (Fall) 1986
Flinn, Christopher J. 1986. "Econometric Analysis of CPS-Type Unemployment Data." Journal of Human Resources 21(4):456-484.
Analysts studying the unemployment experiences of population members often have access to data collected from a sample of individuals at a point in time which contain the length of the ongoing spell of unemployment for sample members currently unemployed. No information regarding the lengths of ongoing employment spells is collected. This paper considers how such information may be utilized in the estimation of parameters of alternating renewal process models of labor market attachment, in the presence of both observed and unobserved population heterogeneity. A number of models are presented, and estimation is carried out using a CPS-type data set from Italy.
The author is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This research was supported by grants from the National Institute of Aging and the National Research Council (C.N.R.) of Italy. He is grateful to Gary Chamberlain, Charles Manski, and two anonymous referees for helpful comments. He is especially grateful to Guido Rey, President of ISTAT, for making the data used in the empirical analysis available, and for discussions regarding the manner in which they were collected and features of the Italian labor market. He also thanks John Engberg for extremely competent research assistance.
© 2003 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
US ISSN 0022-166X