TY - JOUR N2 - The intention of this article is to evaluate the exogenous dismissal probabilityfor a certain worker depending on her characteristics for the Polish labormarket. To model this phenomenon I considered a range of count datamodels. In the analysis the data from the Polish General Social Survey of 2008 was used. Covariates explaining the number of unemployment spells wereselected in the spirit of the human-capital theory. In the course of the studyexistence of intransferable firm-specific human capital across employers anddepreciation of the human capital acquired through learning by doing have beenempirically confirmed. The conducted analysis may be considered the first stepin the calibration of a job-search model with heterogeneous agents. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/103785/PDF-MASTER/mainFile.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/103785 PY - 2011 IS - No 1 EP - 38 DO - 10.24425/cejeme.2011.119301 KW - involuntary unemployment KW - count data models KW - job search A1 - Pytka, Krzysztof PB - Oddział PAN w Łodzi DA - 31.03.2011 T1 - Determinants of Involuntary Job Termination in the Polish Labor Market SP - 25 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/103785 T2 - Central European Journal of Economic Modelling and Econometrics ER -