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This article critically examines the theoretical arguments that underlie the literature linking personality traits to economic outcomes and provides empirical evidence indicating that labour market outcomes influence personality outcomes. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we...
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This paper examines remuneration and labour mobility patterns among workers in foreign-owned firms operating in New Zealand. By tracking workers as they move across jobs, we document the extent of the "foreign wage premium" distinguishing between compositional factors (eg, differences in...
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changes in unemployment and income on the basis of regional panel data provided by Eurostat, the statistical office of the … highest in Germany, followed by France, and Italy. However, even in Germany, the accommodation of a shock to unemployment by …
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workforce, and (ii) a split labour market that is characterized by high levels of unemployment for low-skilled people and a …
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This paper provides a simple theory of geographical mobility which simultaneously explains people’s choice of residences in space and the location of industry. Residences are chosen on the basis of the utility which mobile households obtain across locations. The spatial pattern of industry is...
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This paper investigates the effects of home-ownership on labour mobility and unemployment duration. We distinguish … between home-ownership and unemployment duration. Our empirical findings thus lend some support for the main mechanism behind … the so-called Oswald hypothesis, even if it does not find positive correlation between unemployment duration and home …
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youth unemployment and infer on how more efficient policy actions that will further engage the private sector could result …
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Die deutsche Zuwanderungspolitik benötigt dringend ein ökonomisches Profil. Der volkswirtschaftliche Nutzen von Einwanderung sollte einerseits durch ein Punkte-Auswahlsystem zur Selektion auf Dauer einreisender qualifizierter Arbeitsmigranten, andererseits durch ein marktorientiertes Verfahren...
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geschätzt werden, bestätigen insbesondere die zentrale Bedeutung der Arbeitslosigkeit für die Höhe der Fehlzeiten. Weiterhin …
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erwarten viele Beobachter zum Herbst einen dramatischen Anstieg der Arbeitslosigkeit mit einer baldigen Überschreitung der Vier … den Sommermonaten August und September aller Voraussicht nach völlig ruhig. Saisonal bedingt geht die Arbeitslosigkeit …
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