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Social Networks, Job Search Methods and Reservation Wages: Evidence for Germany
Caliendo, Marco; Schmidl, Ricarda; Uhlendorff, Arne - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
In this paper we analyze the relationship between social networks and the job search behavior of unemployed individuals. It is believed that networks convey useful information in the job search process such that individuals with larger networks should experience a higher productivity of informal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008643688
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Reservation Wages of First and Second Generation Migrants
Constant, Amelie; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765849
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Economic Preferences and Attitudes of the Unemployed: Are Natives and Second Generation Migrants Alike?
Constant, Amelie F.; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between … employment probability about two months after unemployment entry. We observe a significantly lower employment probability for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765852
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Credit Frictions and Labor Market Dynamics
Hristov, Atanas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
We outline the case for credit frictions and a demand side aspect to labor market fluctuations. To illustrate the above proposition, we present a simple framework to analyze the joint dependence between a labor search problem in the labor market and a costly state verification problem in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896114
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Gender-Specific Effects of Unemployment on Family Formation: A Cross-National Perspective
Schmitt, Christian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by … analyze unemployment at the intersection of state-dependence and the reduced opportunity costs of parenthood, distinguishing … UK (1994-2001). The results highlight spurious negative effects of unemployment on family formation among men, which can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068723
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Self-Employment - a Way to End Unemployment?: Empirical Evidence from German Pseudo-Panel Data
Glocker, Daniela; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
This paper contributes to the policy-relevant question whether self-employment is a way out of (long-term) unemployment …. We estimate the relationship between the entry rate into self-employment and previous (long-term) unemployment on the … measurement errors induced by the pseudo panel structure. We find that previous (long-term) unemployment significantly increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069100
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Credit Frictions and Labor Market Dynamics
Hristov, Atanas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
We outline the case for credit frictions and a demand side aspect to labor market fluctuations. To illustrate the above proposition, we present a simple framework to analyze the joint dependence between a labor search problem in the labor market and a costly state verification problem in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069151
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Ethnicity, Job Search and Labor Market Reintegration of the Unemployed
Constant, Amelie; Kahanec, Martin; Rinne, Ulf; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512972
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The Social Comparison Scale: Testing the Validity, Reliability, and Applicability of the IOWA-Netherlands Comparison Orientation Measure (INCOM) on the German Population
Schneider, Simone; Schupp, Jürgen - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
Social comparisons are an essential source of information about the self. Research in social psychology has shown individual variation in the tendency toward comparison with other people's opinions and abilities, raising the question of whether social comparisons are driven by psychological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855644
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Using Personal Car Register for Measuring Economic Inequality in Countries with a Large Share of Shadow Economy: Evidence for Latvia
Dombrovsky, Vyacheslav; Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
We suggest to use information from the state register of personal cars as an alternative indicator of economic inequality in countries with a large share of shadow economy. We illustrate our approach using the Latvian pool of personal cars. Our main finding is that the extent of household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293728