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Bullying at School and Labour Market Outcomes

Drydakis, Nick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This study examines the long-term correlates of bullying in school with aspects of functioning in adult employment outcomes. Bullying is considered and evaluated as a proxy for unmeasured productivity, and a framework is provided that outlines why bullying might affect employment outcomes...

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The Aggregate Labor Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program

Albrecht, James; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vroman, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of lowskill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822408

Labor Market Adjustment: Is Russia Different?

Gimpelson, Vladimir; Kapeliushnikov, Rostislav - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

tracing key labor market indicators such as employment, unemployment, labor force participation, working hours, and real wages …

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Empirical Labor Search: A Survey

Eckstein, Zvi; den Berg, Gerard J. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper surveys the existing empirical research that uses search theory to empirically analyze labor supply questions in a structural framework, using data on individual labor market transitions and durations, wages, and individual characteristics. The starting points of the literature are...

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Is the Persistent Gender Gap in Income and Wages Due to Unequal Family Responsibilities?

Angelov, Nikolay; Johansson, Per; Lindahl, Erica - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We compare the income and wage trajectories of women in relation to their male partners before and after parenthood. Focusing on the within-couple gap allows us to control for both observed and unobserved attributes of the spouse and to estimate both short- and long-term effects of entering...

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Earnings Inequality

Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Inequality has increased considerably in many Western countries over the past decades. When dealing with economic inequality as a research subject the question "inequality of what among whom" arises. Analyses of inequality are typically concerned with the distribution of wages, earnings or...

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Labour as a Buffer: Do Temporary Workers Suffer?

Booth, Alison L.; Francesconi, Marco; Frank, Jeff - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

In this paper, we investigate whether or not there is an equal opportunities dimension to regulating equal pay and conditions for temporary work. We develop a “buffer stock” model of temporary work that suggests a number of reasons why ethnic minorities and women may be more likely to be on...

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Estimating the Impact of Immigration on Wages in Ireland

Barrett, Alan; Bergin, Adele; Kelly, Elish - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives in Ireland applying the technique proposed by Borjas (2003). Under this method, the labour market is divided into a number of skill cells, where the cells are defined by groups with similar levels of experience and education (or...

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Youth Unemployment: Déjà Vu?

Bell, David N.F.; Blanchflower, David G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

and effects of youth unemployment using micro-data. It argues that there is convincing evidence that the young are … particularly susceptible to the negative effects of spells of unemployment well after their initial experience of worklessness …. Because the current youth cohort is relatively large, the longer-term outlook for youth unemployment is quite good, but there …

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Dismissals for Cause: The Difference That Just Eight Paragraphs Can Make

Martins, Pedro Silva - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper provides evidence about the effects of dismissals-for-cause requirements, a specific component of employment protection legislation that has received little attention despite its potential relevance. We study a quasi-natural experiment generated by a law introduced in Portugal in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822593

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