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Happiness as a guide to labor market policy : happiness is key to a productive economy, and a job is key to individual happiness

Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2015

Measures of individual happiness, or well-being, can guide labor market policies. Individual unemployment, as well as … the rate of unemployment in society, have a negative effect on happiness. In contrast, employment protection and … unemployment benefits can contribute to happiness - though when such policies prolong unemployment, the net effect on national …

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Unemployment benefits and job match quality : do unemployment benefits help those seeking work to obtain better jobs?

Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2014

Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and reducing their incentive to look for work. This trade-off between benefits and incentives is central to the public debate about extending benefit periods during the recent...

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Educational attainment, age and the consequences of job loss : empirical evidence from Germany

Effenberger, Alexandra; Lauber, Verena; Schmitz, Sebastian - 2019

Education is a crucial determinant of labour market success. We investigate whether education is an appropriate means to cushion the negative consequences of job loss and study the role of age as a second major labour market factor. Using German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data for the years...

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Youth Unemployment and Government Policy

Orszag, Mike; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

This paper discusses how employment vouchers should depend on age in a simple overlapping generations model in which workers are either young or old. We find that young workers should receive higher vouchers as displacement of the old rises and as the deadweight loss from providing vouchers to...

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Sexual orientation and labor market outcomes : sexual orientation seems to affect job access and satisfaction, earning prospects, and interaction with colleagues

Drydakis, Nick - 2014

Studies from countries with laws against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation suggest that gay and lesbian employees report more incidents of harassment and are more likely to report experiencing unfair treatment in the labor market than are heterosexual employees. Gay men are found...

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The cost of job loss in carbon-intensive sectors: Evidence from Germany

Barreto, Cesar - 2023

The green transformation of the economy is expected to lead to a sharp reduction in employment in carbon-intensive industries. For designing policies to support displaced workers, it is crucial to better understand the cost of job loss, whether there are specific effects of being displaced from...

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Human capital and employment risks diversification

St.-Amour, Pascal - 2015 - Current version: June 8, 2015

Both educational expenditures and attainment have increased sharply over the last decades, despite rising prices of education, and stagnating income returns to human capital. This paper emphasizes conditional employment risks diversification as additional motivation for education demand. Job...

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Trajectories of insecurity : young adults' employment entry, health and well-being

Klug, Katharina; Drobnič, Sonja; Brockmann, Hilke - In: Journal of vocational behavior 115 (2019), pp. 1-16

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Balancing flexibility and security in Europe? : the impact of unemployment on young peoples' subjective well-being

Russell, Helen; Leschke, Janine; Smith, Mark - In: European journal of industrial relations 26 (2020) 3, pp. 243-261

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Wellbeing, Expectations and Unemployment in Europe

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We find expectations are more sensitive to economic growth than traditional wellbeing metrics. We examine Eurobarometer micro data from 1973-2023 on movements in life satisfaction along with data from 1995-2022 on five expectations variables on and individual's life and their financial and job...

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