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Survival analysis
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Informed participation: the effects of information treatment on panel non-response

This paper builds on a longitudinal school-to-work transition phone survey experiment to quantify the effects on attrition of communicating with participants...

Survey Participation Information
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Firm and product survival analysis: Evidence from South African tax administrative and products data

Enterprise development, especially expansion into export markets, is essential to create employment and unlock growth potential in many economies, including in sub-Saharan Africa...

Enterprises Survival analysis Firm performance
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Job duration in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa

The two primary features of a job are its wage and how long it lasts. Today, there is an extensive literature on wages in the developing world thanks to the expansion of national household survey data...

Apartheid Labour market dynamics Job duration
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Job spells in an emerging market: Evidence from apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa

Few studies exist on job duration in developing labour markets—an important omission both in our understanding of such markets and for the job duration literature, which is mainly based on developed-country case studies, which differ in structu...

Apartheid Labour market dynamics Job duration
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