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Do Workers Really Benefit From Their Social Networks?
Fontaine, François - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
increasing the number of workers embedded in the social networks can increase the unemployment rate and decrease workers welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566629
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Neighborhood Effects and Individual Unemployment
Bauer, Thomas; Fertig, Michael; Vorell, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
federal employment agency and data of real estate prices, we evaluate the impact of neighborhood unemployment on individual … neighborhood unemployment on the individual employment probability. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353613
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Social Interactions in Unemployment
Lalive, Rafael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703147
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A Caseworker Like Me: Does the Similarity between Unemployed and Caseworker Increase Job Placements?
Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper examines whether the chances of job placements improve if unemployed persons are counselled by caseworkers who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and nationality. Based on an unusually informative dataset, which links Swiss unemployed to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822697
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The Role of Social Work Norms in Job Searching and Subjective Well-Being
Stutzer, Alois; Lalive, Rafael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
Social norms are usually neglected in economics because they are to a large extent enforced through non-market interactions and difficult to isolate empirically. In this paper, we offer a direct measure of the social norm to live off one’s own income and we show that this norm has important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703429
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Unemployment, Social Capital, and Subjective Well-Being
Winkelmann, Rainer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
It has been shown in past research that unemployment has a large negative impact on subjective well-being of … effects of unemployment. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel 1984-2004, I find that social capital is an important … predictor of well-being levels, but there is no evidence that it moderates the effect of unemployment on well-being. The well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566551
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"It Wasn’t Me, It Was Them!" Social Influence in Risky Behavior by Adolescents
Clark, Andrew E.; Lohéac, Youenn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Many years of concerted policy effort in Western countries has not prevented young people from experimenting with cigarettes, alcohol and marijuana. One potential explanation is that social interactions make consumption "sticky". We use detailed panel data from the Add Health survey to examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233910
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Social Interactions in the Labor Market
Grodner, Andrew; Kniesner, Thomas J.; Bishop, John A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
measure local economic conditions by the county unemployment rate and neighborhood spillover effects by the racial makeup and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283580
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Labor Supply with Social Interactions: Econometric Estimates and Their Tax Policy Implications
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Grodner, Andrew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Our econometric research allows for a possible response of a person's hours worked to hours typically worked by members of a multidimensional labor market reference group that considers demographics and geographic location. Instrumental variables estimates of the canonical labor supply model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822038
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Tax Evasion and Social Interactions
Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
The paper extends the standard tax evasion model by allowing for social interactions. In Manski’s (1993) nomenclature, our model takes into account social conformity effects (i.e., endogenous interactions), fairness effects (i.e., exogenous interactions) and sorting effects (i.e., correlated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822713