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The Dynamics of the National Minimum Wage: Transitions Between Different Labour Market States

Jones, Melanie K.; Jones, Richard J.; Murphy, Philip D.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

the Labour Force Survey over the period 1999 to 2003 to model transitions between different labour market states – payment …

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Labor Mobility of Immigrants: Training, Experience, Language and Opportunities

Cohen, Sarit; Eckstein, Zvi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

This paper analyzes the labor mobility and human capital accumulation of male immigrants who moved from the former Soviet Union to Israel. We formulate an estimable dynamic choice model for employment and training in blue and white-collar occupations, where the labor market randomly offered...

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Transitions to Entrepreneurship and Industry-Specific Barriers

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy; Parker, Simon C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship. …

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Estimating the Return to Training and Occupational Experience: The Case of Female Immigrants

Cohen-Goldner, Sarit; Eckstein, Zvi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Do government provided training programs benefit the participants and the society? We address this question in the context of female immigrants who first learn the new language and then choose between working or attending government provided training. Although theoretically training may have...

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The Heterogeneity and Cyclical Sensitivity of Unemployment: An Exploration of German Labor Market Flows

Schmidt, Christoph M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

It is often argued that the labor market outcomes of several "problem groups" of German workers suffer disproportionately in an economic downturn. These groups are women, the unskilled, and young and old workers, respectively. Using monthly individual-level data for West Germany for the period...

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The Effects of Smoking Ban Regulations on Individual Smoking Rates

Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Wilkins, Roger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper describes the dynamics of smoking behaviour in Australia and investigates what role smoking ban regulation has, if any, on individual level smoking patterns. The main argument to motivate the introduction of tougher smoking bans is the effect of second hand smoke on non-smokers. From...

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Persistence and the German Unemployment Problem: Empirical Evidences on German Labor Market Flows

Schmidt, Christoph M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

Using a retrospective monthly calendarium of individuals’ major economic activities, this paper characterizes the monthly employment and unemployment rates and the monthly transition intensities between the states of employment, unemployment, and out-of-the-labor-force for the German labor...

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Quantity over Quality? A European Comparison of the Changing Nature of Transitions between Non-Employment and Employment

Eichhorst, Werner; Konle-Seidl, Regina; Koslowski, Alison; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

unemployed and the inactive remain distinct groups with regards to transitions into employment, post-industrial labour markets …

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Work and Family: Marriage, Children, Child Gender and the Work Hours and Earnings of West German Men

Choi, Hyung-Jai; Joesch, Jutta M.; Lundberg, Shelly - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in the German Socio-Economic Panel. Living with a partner and living with a child both have substantial positive effects on earnings and work hours. These effects persist in fixed...

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Is Marriage Poisonous? Are Relationships Taxing? An Analysis of the Male Marital Wage Differential in Denmark

Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Smith, Nina; Stratton, Leslie S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

indicate that a part of the marriage or cohabitation premium is not due to marriage or cohabitation itself, but to fatherhood …. When information on becoming a father and years spent in fatherhood is added to the empirical model, the results show that … fathers receive a ‘fatherhood’ premium during their first few years as fathers and that the initial marital wage premium is …

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