Unemployment Duration and its Determinants Using Cox Proportional Hazard Model Evidence from Yazd City during 2007-2010

The following research attempts to study the effect of personal characteristics on unemployment duration in Yazd city during 2007-2010. The Cox proportional hazard model is used to test the hypotheses in this study. A sample of 1964 individuals who had experienced one term of unemployment during the study period is analyzed. The results suggest that factors such as being a male, being married, number of children, having professional skills, employment background and higher education could decrease the unemployment duration while two factors of age and the spouse employment are likely to have increase this period.