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Wage risk and employment risk over the life cycle

Low, Hamish (contributor); Meghir, Costas (contributor); … - 2008

frictions that allows us to distinguish between different sources of risk and to estimate their effects. The sources of risk are …. Estimates of productivity risk, once we control for employment risk and for individual labour supply choices, are substantially … lower than estimates that attribute all wage variation to productivity risk. Increases in productivity risk impose a …

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Contractual employment protection and the scarring risk of unemployment

Jahn, Elke J. (contributor); Wagner, Thomas (contributor) - 2005

Risk-averse job seekers fearing the scarring effect of unemployment meet vacancies offering contractual employment … risk and the scarring risk of unemployment. SPC diversify the income risk, but provide only limited protection against the … scarring risk. (1) Workers strictly prefer contract market to spot market jobs. (2) A higher productivity, a lower probability …

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Fertility changes in Latin America in the context of economic uncertainty

Adserà, Alícia; Menendez, Alicia - 2009

We explore the relation between fertility and the business cycle in Latin American countries taking advantage of the existing cross-country and within-country differences in both fertility and macroeconomic conditions. First, we use a panel of 18 nations for over 45 years to study how different...

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Labour market status and migration dynamics

Bijwaard, Govert - 2009

In this empirical paper we assess how labour market transitions and out- and repeated migration of immigrants are interrelated. We estimate a multi-state multiple spell competing risks model with four states: employed, unemployed receiving benefits, out-of-the-labour market (no benefits) and...

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Job loss fears and (extremist) party identification : first evidence from panel data

Geishecker, Ingo; Siedler, Thomas - 2012

There is a large body of literature analyzing the relationship between objective economic conditions and voting behavior, but there is very little evidence of how perceived economic insecurity impacts on political preferences. Using seventeen years of household panel data from the German...

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Job insecurity, employability, and health : an analysis for Germany across generations

Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2014

It is now a quarter of a century since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the gap in living standards between eastern and western Germany is still not fully closed. Admittedly, this could not realistically have been expected. Despite the increase in life satisfaction in eastern Germany, the...

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Unemployment risk and over-indebtedness : a micro-econometric perspective

Du Caju, Philip; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan - 2015

We study how unemployment effects the over-indebtedness of households using the new European Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). First, we assess the role of different labor market statuses (i.e. employed, unemployed, disabled, retired, etc.) and other household characteristics...

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Where does education pay off in sub-Saharan Africa? : evidence from two cities of the Republic of Congo

Kuepié, Mathias; Nordman, Christophe J. - 2015 - Forthcoming in: Oxford Development Studies, 2016

segments where education pays off the most. Multivariate analyses of the risk of unemployment and sectoral choice indicate that …

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Consumption and savings with unemployment risk : implications for optimal employment contracts

Pissaridēs, Christophoros A. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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State-level economic policy uncertainty

Baker, Scott; Davis, Steven J.; Levy, Jeffrey A. - 2022

We quantify and study state-level economic policy uncertainty. Tapping digital archives for nearly 3,500 local newspapers, we construct three monthly indexes for each state: one that captures state and local sources of policy uncertainty (ΕPU-S), one that captures national and international...

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