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The causes of long-term unemployment have been the subject of considerable research and debate. Some of the more rigorous work in this area has been based on individual level, cohort data. In practice, such databases are often not quite as rich as they first seem for at least two reasons. First, they generally only contain information about two points in time: some initial period (i.e. about a group of individuals known to be unemployed at time t) and some later period (t+n), when some of the individuals will have found employment, but others are still in unemployment. Second, because the data are so costly to obtain, they are only collected infrequently on an ad hoc basis and are rarely up-to-date.
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Bosworth, D.L. (1992). Duration of unemployment: an analysis of the Labour Force Survey. In: Verhaar, C.H.A., Jansma, LG., de Goede, M.P.M., van Ophem, J.A.C., de Vries, A. (eds) On the Mysteries of Unemployment. Studies in Operational Regional Science, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8080-9_10
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