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Has the Dutch miracle come to an end?
Ours, Jan C. van - 2003
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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COVID-19 and employment in South Korea: trends and comparison with the 2008 Financial Crisis
Nam, Minhyuk; Lee, Soohyung - 2021
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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The short-run effects of the minimum wage on employment and labor market participation : evidence from an individual-level panel
Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest - 2019
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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Work, jobs and well-being across the millennium
Clark, Andrew E. - 2009
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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Work, jobs and well-being across the millennium
Clark, Andrew E. (contributor) - 2009
recent years. -- Employment ; unemployment ; self-employment ; life satisfaction ; job quality ; job satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794111
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Unpacking the post-lockdown employment recovery of young women in the Global South
Scott, Douglas; Freund, Richard; Favara, Marta; Porter, … - 2021
This paper analyses the difference in short-term employment recovery between young men and women in India, Peru and Vietnam following the national lockdowns imposed in all three countries during 2020. We employ a mediation model to establish whether - and to what extent - commonly suggested...
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Fired and pregnant : gender differences in job flexibility outcomes after job loss
Meekes, Jordy; Hassink, Wolter H. J. - 2020
, women experience longer unemployment and a slightly smaller hourly wage loss after job loss, suggesting that displaced women …
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Faces of joblessness in Australia : an anatomy of employment barriers using household data
Immervoll, Herwig; Pacifico, Daniele; Vandeweyer, Marieke - 2019
Australia's economy and labour market have escaped a dramatic downturn following the global financial economic crisis. Yet, a substantial share of working-age Australians either were not working or worked only to a limited extent as the global recovery gathered pace between 2013 and 2014. 18%...
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Life Satisfaction Differences between Workers and Non-Workers - The Value of Participation per se
van Praag, Bernard M.S.; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2002
Is working more than monetary income? This paper attempts to give an answer to this question on the basis of the German Socio-economic Panel data set. By comparing the satisfaction with life between workers and non-workers with the same household income, the monetary value of participating in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324826
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Life satisfaction differences between workers and non-workers : the value of participation per se
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2001
Is working more than monetary income? This paper attempts to give an answer to this question on the basis of the German Socio-economic Panel data set. By comparing the satisfaction with life between workers and non-workers with the same household income, the monetary value of participating in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326416