Long-term Unemployment Spells and Exit States of Men in Romania and Hungary

This paper present first empirical analysis of long-term unemployment spells and exit states of Romanian and Hungarian men. We analyze the effect of various individual characteristics on men long-term unemployment spells and exit states using two micro-datasets obtained from National Agency of Employment Romania and from Institute of Economics, HungarianAcademy of Science. Cox proportional hazard model with three competing-risks is estimated for Romania; for Hungary with have a four competing-risks specification.