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Three Mixed Proportional Hazard models for estimation of unemployment duration when attrition is present are considered. The virtue of these models is that they take account of dependence between failure times in a multivariate failure time distribution context. However, identification in dependent competing risks models is not straightforward. We show that these models, independently derived, are special cases of a general frailty model. It is also demonstrated that the three models are identified by means of identification of the general model. An empirical example illustrates the approach to model dependent failure times.
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Carling, K., Jacobson, T. Modeling unemployment duration in a dependent competing risks framework: Identification and estimation. Lifetime Data Anal 1, 111–122 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00985262
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