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From Giving Birth to Paid Labor: The Effects of Adult Education for Prime-Aged Mothers

Bergemann, Annette; den Berg, Gerard J. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

virtually no cost. We focus on low-skilled women who have recently given birth. We take account of program accessibility …

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Unanticipated Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Program

Das, Tirthatanmoy; Polachek, Solomon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We examine the effect of California Paid Family Leave (CPFL) on young women's (less than 42 years of age) labor force participation and unemployment. CPFL enables workers to take at most six weeks of paid leave over a 12 month period in order to bond with new born or adopted children, or to care...

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Social Policies for a Recovery

Immervoll, Herwig; Llena-Nozal, Ana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The fallout from the global economic downturn of 2008-09 is a continuing source of stress on families and a constraint on government policies. How can social policies contribute to a quick and equitable recovery from the crisis and how can they best respond to the difficulties that households...

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The Political Economy of Job Protection and Income Redistribution

Amable, Bruno; Gatti, Donatella - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper presents a model allowing to analyze voting, welfare institutions and economic performance. We consider a political economy framework with three classes of agents: entrepreneurs, employed workers and unemployed workers. Agents vote on alternative institutional options: the degree of...

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Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Orszag, J. Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...

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Intergenerational Influences on the Receipt of Unemployment Insurance in Canada and Sweden

Corak, Miles; Gustafsson, Björn; Österberg, Torun - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

The objective of this paper is to examine the extent to which an individual’s use of unemployment insurance (UI) as a young adult is influenced by past experience with the program, and by having had a parent who also collected UI. A major methodological challenge is to determine the extent to...

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Life Satisfaction in Urban China: Components and Determinants

Song, Lina; Appleton, Simon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Survey data from urban China in 2002 show levels of life satisfaction to be low, but not exceptionally so, by international comparison. Many of the determinants of life satisfaction in urban China appear comparable to those for people in other countries. These include, inter alia, unemployment,...

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Crime Scars: Recessions and the Making of Career Criminals

Bell, Brian; Bindler, Anna; Machin, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

to lead a life of crime than those graduating into a buoyant labour market. These effects are long lasting and …

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Does the Link between Unemployment and Crime Depend on the Crime Level? A Quantile Regression Approach

Entorf, Horst; Sieger, Philip - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

between unemployment and crime also depends on preexisting local crime levels. In order to analyze conjectured nonlinearities … quantile regressions confirm the positive link between unemployment and crime for property crimes, results for assault differ … importance of the relationship are conditional on the crime rate: The partial effect is significantly positive for moderately low …

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Unemployment and Gang Crime: Could Prosperity Backfire?

Poutvaara, Panu; Priks, Mikael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Empirical evidence reveals that unemployment tends to increase property crime but that it has no effect on violent … crime. To explain these facts, we examine a model of criminal gangs and suggest that there is a substitution effect between … property crime and violent crime at work. In the model, non-monetary valuation of gang membership is private knowledge. Thus …

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