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Do the Unemployed Become Successful Entrepreneurs? A Comparison between the Unemployed, Inactive and Wage-Earners
Andersson, Pernilla; Wadensjö, Eskil - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
In many countries unemployed people are helped to become self-employed. Selfemployment, however, does not necessarily lead to success. Many leave self-employment after a short period and the economic outcome varies greatly. It is important to learn more about the economic outcome for unemployed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566730
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Measuring Heterogeneity in Job Finding Rates Among the Nonemployed Using Labor Force Status Histories
Kudlyak, Marianna; Lange, Fabian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We use a novel approach to studying the heterogeneity in the job finding rates of the nonemployed by classifying the nonemployed by labor force status (LFS) histories, instead of using only one-month LFS. Job finding rates differ substantially across LFS histories: they are 25-30% among those...
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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 than 5%). Part-time jobs are also found to be more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566628
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The Dynamics of Job Creation and Destruction for University Graduates: Why a Rising Unemployment Rate Can Be Misleading
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Ferreira, Priscila - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
creation and job destruction for university graduates, compared to other groups of workers. We find that the unemployment rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762094
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Disaggregate Matching Functions
Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is unusual due to the scarcity of appropriate data....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762399
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Labor Market Adjustment: Is Russia Different?
Gimpelson, Vladimir; Kapeliushnikov, Rostislav - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
tracing key labor market indicators such as employment, unemployment, labor force participation, working hours, and real wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876563
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Job Mobility in Britain: Are the Scots Different? Evidence from the BHPS
Heitmueller, Axel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
The Scottish extension-sample of the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) is used to shed light on differences in job mobility patterns in England and Scotland for both men and women. Based on probit estimates of the overall mobility rate, a decomposition is applied to distinguish between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566735
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Happiness and Work
Krause, Annabelle - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The analyses are mostly based on large-scale survey data to measure subjective well-being. Whereas one large strand of research investigates the effect of job loss and becoming...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959638
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Don't Worry, Be Happy? Happiness and Reemployment
Krause, Annabelle - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
also a driver of behavior and life's outcomes? Rich survey data of recent entrants into unemployment in Germany show that a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959814
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Boon or Bane? Others' Unemployment, Well-being and Job Insecurity
Clark, Andrew E.; Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the well-being of the employed, but has a … the appropriate distinction may not be between employment and unemployment, but rather between higher and lower levels of … affected by regional unemployment. However, insecure employed men and poor-prospect unemployed men are less negatively, or even …
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