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The Welfare Impact of Price Changes on Household Welfare and Inequality 1999-2010
Loughrey, Jason; O'Donoghue, Cathal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper provides a single welfare measure to show the effects of consumer price changes upon households in Ireland … component using the Atkinson Social Welfare Function. The efficiency component includes the behavioural response to price … of households in response to price changes in most years. …
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Does the Size of the Effect of Adverse Events at High Ages on Daily-Life Physical Functioning Depend on the Economic Conditions Around Birth?
Scholte, Robert; den Berg, Gerard J. van; Lindeboom, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper considers determinants of physical-functional limitations in daily-life activities at high ages. Specifically, we quantify the extent to which the impact of adverse life events on this outcome is larger in case of exposure to adverse economic conditions early in life. Adverse life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884074
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Unemployment Transitions to Stable and Unstable Jobs Before and During the Crisis
Nagore García, Amparo; van Soest, Arthur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Using administrative records data from Spanish Social Security, we analyse the pattern and the determinants of individual unemployment benefit spell durations. We compare a period of expansion (2005-2007) and the recent recession (2009-2011), allowing us to determine the impact of the current...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884159
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Why is Old Workers' Labor Market More Volatile? Unemployment Fluctuations over the Life-Cycle
Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François; Sopraseuth, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Since the last recession, it is usually argued that older workers are less affected by the economic downturn because their unemployment rate rose less than the one of prime-age workers. This view is a myth: older workers are more sensitive to the business cycle. We document volatilities of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884226
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Newborn Health and the Business Cycle: Is It Good to Be Born in Bad Times?
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa; Gonzalez, Libertad - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We study the effect of the cycle on the health of newborn babies using 30 years of birth-certificate data for Spain. We find that babies are born healthier when the local unemployment rate is high. Although fertility is lower during recessions, the effect on health is not the result of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884258
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Good Skills in Bad Times: Cyclical Skill Mismatch and the Long-Term Effects of Graduating in a Recession
Liu, Kai; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We show that cyclical skill mismatch, defined as mismatch between the skills supplied by college graduates and skills demanded by hiring industries, is an important mechanism behind persistent career loss from graduating in recessions. Using Norwegian data, we find a strong countercyclical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884273
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The Cyclical Behaviour of Employers' Monopsony Power and Workers' Wages
Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper investigates the behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages over the business cycle. Using German administrative linked employer-employee data for the years 1985-2010 and an estimation framework based on duration models, we construct a time series of the firm-level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887067
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Employment Polarization in Spain along the Cycle 1997-2012
Anghel, Brindusa; de la Rica, Sara; Lacuesta, Aitor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This article analyzes changes in the occupational employment share in Spain for the period 1997-2012 and the way particular sociodemographic adapt to those changes. There seems to be clear evidence of employment polarization between 1997 and 2012 that accelerates over the recession. Changes in...
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Business Cycles, Unemployment and Entrepreneurial Entry: Evidence from Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Pijnenburg, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We investigate whether people are more willing to become self-employed during boom periods or during recessions and to what extent business cycles or unemployment levels influence entries into entrepreneurship. Our analysis for Germany reveals that there is a positive relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271986
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Explaining the Dynamics in Perceptions of Job Insecurity in Russia
Lokshin, Michael; Gimpelson, Vladimir; Oshchepkov, Aleksey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Contrary to the experiences of other countries, perceptions of job insecurity in Russia were not correlated with the rates of unemployment and the business cycle over the last decade. We develop the theoretical framework that predicts that the individual perceptions of job insecurity depend on...
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