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Long-term unemployment and labor force participation : a decomposition of unemployment to test for the discouragement and added worker hypotheses

Fuchs, Johann; Weber, Enzo - 2015

unemployment rate - into a short-term and a long-term component. While short-term unemployment might not result in additional … workers on a large scale, long-term unemployment reduces household income more, increasing the need for additional income. On … are available, distinguishing between short-term and long-term unemployment reveals discouragement effects. …

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The emergence of procyclical fertility : the role of gender differences in employment risk

Coskun, Sena; Dalgic, Husnu - 2022

Fertility in the US exhibits an increasingly more procyclical pattern. We argue that women's breadwinner status is behind procyclical fertility: (i) women's relative income in the family has increased over time; and (ii) women are more likely to work in relatively stable and countercyclical...

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Gender gaps of the unemployed : what drives diverging labor market outcomes?

Dauth, Christine - 2016

unemployment duration and the quality of reemployment. …

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Cohort size and youth labour-market outcomes : the role of measurement error

Moffat, John D.; Roth, Duncan - 2016

employment and unemployment outcomes is very sensitive to the age range of the sample. We argue that this is because the … size increases employment and reduces unemployment. …

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Overeducation : new evidence for 25 European countries

Boll, Christina; Leppin, Julian Sebastian; Rossen, Anja; … - 2016

This study investigates the incidence of overeducation among workers in the EU and its underlying factors based on the most recent wave of the European Labor Force Survey (EU-LFS 2013). Its main purpose is to shed light on the interplay of so far neglected explanatory factors such as household...

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Multinational resilience or dispensable jobs? : German FDI and employment in the Czech Republic around the Great Recession

Eisermann, Merlind; Moritz, Michael; Stockinger, Bastian - 2015

This article investigates the employment development of Czech-based firms in German ownership in the years around the Great Recession of 2008/2009. The intense involvement of German firms in the economy of the neighboring country via foreign direct investment (FDI) raises the question whether...

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The impact of changing youth employment patterns on future wages

Umkehrer, Matthias - 2015

Ich untersuche die Beschäftigungsverläufe von deutschen Ausbildungsabsolventen, wie sich frühe Beschäftigungsstabilität auf spätere Löhne auswirkt, und wie sich dieser Zusammenhang seit den späten 1970er Jahren verändert hat. In den Daten zeigt sich seit den späten 1980er Jahren ein...

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The effects of private versus public health insurance on health and labor market outcomes

Dauth, Christine - 2021

Among health care systems with both public and private elements (such as in the US and Germany), an important question is whether the type of health insurance exerts an impact on workers' careers. We exploit the unique German case of a two-tier health care system to analyze whether opting out of...

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Patterns of overeducation in Europe : the role of field of study

Boll, Christina; Rossen, Anja; Wolf, André - 2018

This study investigates the incidence of overeducation among graduate workers in 21 EU countries and its underlying factors based on the European Labor Force Survey 2016 (EU-LFS). Although controlling for a wide range of covariates, the particular interest lies in the role of fields of study for...

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To include or not to include? : firm employment decisions with respect to the German disabled worker quota

Hiesinger, Karolin - 2022

This paper analyzes whether financial disincentives affect firm demand for disabled workers. In Germany, firms must pay a noncompliance fine if they do not meet their legal quota for disabled workers. I exploit a threshold in this quota: Firms with fewer than 40 employees are required to employ...

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