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Multilevel discrete-time event history models with applications to the analysis of recurrent employment transitions. (English) Zbl 1334.62143

Summary: Data on the timing of events such as births, residential moves and changes in employment status are collected in many longitudinal surveys. These data often have a highly complex structure, with events of several types occurring repeatedly over time to an individual and interdependences between different event processes (e.g. births and employment transitions). The aim of this paper is to review a general class of multilevel discrete-time event history models for handling recurrent events and transitions between multiple states. It is also shown how standard methods can be extended to allow for time-varying covariates that are outcomes of an event process that is jointly determined with the process of interest. The considerable potential of these methods for studying transitions through the life course is illustrated in analyses of the effect of the presence and age of children on women’s employment transitions, using data from the British Household Panel Survey.

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62J12 Generalized linear models (logistic models)
62N05 Reliability and life testing
62-07 Data analysis (statistics) (MSC2010)

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