Showing 1 - 10 of 1,028
This paper uses repeated cross-section data ISSP data from 1989, 1997 and 2005 to consider movements in job quality. It is first underlined that not having a job when you want one is a major source of low well-being. Second, job values have remained fairly stable over time, although workers seem...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015469
This paper analyzes the relationship between time allocation decisions of the unemployed, gender, and regional … unemployment rates. Using the Spanish Time Use Survey 2002-2003 and 2009-2010, we find that higher regional unemployment rates are … channel through which others' unemployment affects time allocation decisions of the unemployed. As higher regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990932
This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self … employment in non-leadership, non-high-level managerial positions, unemployment, and non-labour market participation. Our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466456
in unemployment rates of these groups. Second, we present estimates of gender-specific multinomial logit models to … transition probabilities between the labor market states of employment, unemployment and out-of-the labor force under Markovian … assumptions by gender and rural-urban residence and marital status. Transition probabilities are used to analyze the differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566397
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
(though, owing to the gender earnings gap, from a much lower base). Multinomial logit estimations of employment, unemployment …, unemployment and economic inactivity, relative to males during the first year of the financial crisis – though males are harder hit … than females in terms of the levels of unemployment. In terms of earnings, the picture is reversed, with females being …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371887
Since 1986 the United States has made considerable efforts to curb illegal immigration. This has resulted in an increase in migration costs for undocumented immigrants. More stringent border enforcement either deters potential illegal immigrants from coming to the U.S., or moves the point of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008536012
We examine the effect of salient international soccer tournaments on the motivation of unemployed individuals to search for employment using the German Socio Economic Panel 1984-2010. Exploiting the random scheduling of survey interviews, we find significant effects on motivational variables...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884185
Italy's labour market suffers from a serious pathology, in addition to the increasing precariousness of the young workforce common to all EU member countries: flows from regular employment to non-employment are very often dead-ends. A vast number of young individuals who lose their job only a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884397
models have deeply renewed the understanding of job search, job flows, job creations and destructions, unemployment and wage … optimal level of unemployment benefits, the funding of unemployment insurance and the impact of employment protection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959848