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In the past decades unemployment in the Netherlands has gone down substantially. The main suspects responsible for this … unemployment rate in the Netherlands has increased somewhat. However, since the huge decline in unemployment was due to structural … improvements in the functioning of the labor market there is not a lot of reason to worry about the recent rise in unemployment …
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decreased the employment rate by 0.82%p and increased the unemployment rate by 0.29%p. These estimated effects are 90 …
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advantage of individual-level longitudinal data to observe the impacts of minimum wage changes on unemployment and labor force … determines unemployment and labor force participation. Specifically, the empirical strategy controls any fixed individual … increase in unemployment immediately following a minimum wage increase. In addition, it does not appear that employers are …
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We study the macroeconomic effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit extensions in the United States at short and … when initial durations are shorter have substantial effects on the unemployment rate and the number of people receiving UI …
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This paper examines the economic consequences of terror attacks and the channels through which terrorism affects local economies. I rely on an exhaustive list of terror attacks over the period 1970-2013 in the U.S. and exploit the inherent randomness in the success or failure of terror attacks...
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overly long unemployment durations. We examine the infuence of previous wages on unemployment durations for workers after …
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This paper uses repeated cross-section data ISSP data from 1989, 1997 and 2005 to consider movements in job quality. It is first underlined that not having a job when you want one is a major source of low well-being. Second, job values have remained fairly stable over time, although workers seem...
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home. I analyze the relationship between such house lock and the elevated levels and persistence of unemployment during the … job search in the local labor market for homeowners whose home value has declined, I focus on differences in unemployment … that enables the estimation of individual and aggregate covariate effects on completed unemployment durations in synthetic …
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recent years. -- Employment ; unemployment ; self-employment ; life satisfaction ; job quality ; job satisfaction …
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overly long unemployment durations. We examine the infuence of previous wages on unemployment durations for workers after … observed productivity. -- unemployment ; job search ; overconfidence …
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