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It is puzzling that people feel quite unhappy when they become unemployed, while at thesame time active labor market policies are needed to bring unemployed back to work morequickly. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigate whether there isindeed such a puzzle. First, we...
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High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well …
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characterized by increased influence from the financial market andextreme economic events - using data from the Household Income …
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females are disadvantaged in the Serbian labor market in terms ofmoving out of the two undesirable states, unemployment and … interms of the levels of unemployment. In terms of earnings, the picture is reversed, withfemales being worse off in terms of … gender earningsgap, from a much lower base). Multinomial logit estimations of employment, unemployment,and inactivity …
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Research on self-employment has increased during recent years and particular attention has been paid to self-employment dynamics and the factors influencing entry and exit rates from self-employment. Using a large panel data set for Sweden, this paper investigates variations in recruitment to...
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This paper studies the effects on registered employment, earnings, and number of registered establishments of two employment subsidy schemes in Turkey. We implement a difference-in-differences methodology to construct appropriate counterfactuals for the covered provinces...
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age at which the individualstarts receiving disability benefits, and the increase in the local unemployment rate … the strongsubstitution effect would be replaced by an equally large income effect even if the increase inthe benefits …
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contemporary unemployment affect a young worker’s probability ofbeing invited to a job interview. In contrast to studies using … forunobserved heterogeneity. We find no evidence that recruiting employers use informationabout past unemployment to sort workers … pastunemployment as a sorting criterion suggests that the scarring effects of unemployment maynot be as severe as has been indicated by …
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´s institutional response to the increase in unemployment and poverty triggered by the crisis. The program provided a social safety net …
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We evaluate the information content of admission conditions for study programs quality by investigating its relationship with graduates employability. We find that study programs with larger numeri clausi are associated with a higher probability of finding a job. Additionally, compulsory...
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