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Ethnicity, Job Search and Labor Market Reintegration of the Unemployed

Constant, Amelie F.; Kahanec, Martin; Rinne, Ulf; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment in Germany. Our data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us to adapt a recently developed concept of ethnic identity: the ethnosizer. To shed further light...

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Reservation Wages of First and Second Generation Migrants

Constant, Amelie F.; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper analyzes the reservation wages of first and second generation migrants. Based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that reservation wages increase from first to second generation...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008777149

Ethnic Minorities in the European Union: An Overview

Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ethnicity and examine various data sources as well …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008777156

Economic Preferences and Attitudes of the Unemployed: Are Natives and Second Generation Migrants Alike?

Constant, Amelie F.; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

In this paper we study the economic effects of risk attitudes, time preferences, trust and reciprocity while we compare natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between the two groups mainly in terms of risk attitudes...

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Regional Unemployment, Gender and Time Allocation of the Unemployed

Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper analyzes the relationship between time allocation decisions of the unemployed, gender, and regional …

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Gender Differences in Subjective Well-Being in and out of Management Positions

Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self … who specialized in household production, with no market work. Only women who were unemployed reported lower levels of life …

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Unemployment and Transitions in the Turkish Labor Market: Evidence from Individual Level Data

Tasci, H. Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

assumptions by gender and rural-urban residence and marital status. Transition probabilities are used to analyze the differences … in unemployment rates of these groups. Second, we present estimates of gender-specific multinomial logit models to …

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Part-Time Work in EU Countries: Labour Market Mobility, Entry and Exit

Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Mourre, Gilles; Ward, Melanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper looks at the role of part-time work in labour mobility for 11 European countries. We find some evidence of … part-time work being used as a stepping stone into full-time employment, but for a small proportion of individuals (less … it. Multinomial logit regression of the determinants of part-time work reveals household composition, past labour market …

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Unemployment of Non-western Immigrants in the Great Recession

Cerveny, Jakub; Ours, Jan C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper examines whether unemployment of non-western immigrant workers in the Netherlands was disproportionally affected by the Great Recession. We analyze unemployment data covering the period November 2007 to February 2013 finding that the Great Recession affected unemployment rates of...

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Last Hired, First Fired? Black-White Unemployment and the Business Cycle

Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Past studies have tested the claim that blacks are the last hired during periods of economic growth and the first fired in recessions by examining the movement of relative unemployment rates over the business cycle. Any conclusion drawn from this type of analysis must be viewed as tentative...

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