Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34642 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 2848
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
There are large spatial disparities in unemployment durations across the 1,300 municipalities in the Ile-de-France region (Paris Greater Area). In order to characterize these imbalances, we estimate a proportional hazard model stratified by municipality on an exhaustive dataset of all unemployment spells starting in the first semester of 1996. This model allows us to recover a survival function for each municipality that is purged of individual observed heterogeneity. We show that only 30% of the disparities in the observed determinants of the survival rates relate to individual variables. Nearly 70% of the remaining disparities are captured by local indicators, mainly segregation indices.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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