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Atypical Work and Employment Continuity
Addison, John T.; Surfield, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Atypical employment arrangements such as agency temporary work and contracting have long been criticized as offering more precarious and unstable work than regular employment. Using data from two datasets – the CAEAS and the NLSY79 – we determine whether workers who take such jobs rather...
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The Use of Alternative Work Arrangements by the Jobless: Evidence from the CAEAS/CPS
Addison, John T.; Surfield, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
. When we evaluate the use of AWAs against unemployment, there is also evidence that the jobless are entering AWAs as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822122
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Non-Standard Employment and Labour Force Participation: A Comparative View of the Recent Development in Europe
Schmid, Günther - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
through multiple or long periods of unemployment, changing working times, obsolete skills or restricted work capacities due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008548712
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Estimating the Impact of Immigrants on the Host Country Social Security System When Return Migration is an Endogenous Choice
Kirdar, Murat G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
In this paper, I estimate the fiscal impact of immigrants on the German pension insurance (PI) and unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008536008
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Aid to Jobless Workers in Florida in the Face of the Great Recession: The Interaction of Unemployment Insurance and the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program
Heflin, Colleen M.; Mueser, Peter R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
people in January 2013 – or 15.1 percent of all Americans – and the Unemployment Insurance Program (UI), which more than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884246
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Inclusive Growth: What Future for the European Social Model?
Schmid, Günther - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
and Income Security (EIS) to strengthen the inclusive function and stabilisation impact of national unemployment insurance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884390
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Social Protection beyond the Bottom Billion
Murphy, Susan; Walsh, Patrick Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Most conceptualisations of the bottom billion assume that "the poor" are a minority group in a state of continuous dependency, identifiable by region and demographic. Using a flow analysis (inflow and outflow) of poverty, rather than a stock analysis, we explain why poverty is more appropriately...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886148
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Do Extended Unemployment Benefits Lengthen Unemployment Spells? Evidence from Recent Cycles in the U.S. Labor Market
Farber, Henry; Valletta, Robert G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In response to the Great Recession and sustained labor market downturn, the availability of unemployment insurance (UI … extensions across states to estimate the overall impact of these extensions on unemployment duration, comparing the experience … extensions on unemployment transitions and duration. We rely on individual variation in benefit availability based on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096077
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A Contribution to the Empirics of Reservation Wages
Krueger, Alan B.; Mueller, Andreas I. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high … to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported reservation wages decline at a modest rate over the spell of unemployment, with … point estimates ranging from 0.05 to 0.14 percent per week of unemployment. The decline in reservation wages is driven …
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Intergenerational Influences on the Receipt of Unemployment Insurance in Canada and Sweden
Corak, Miles; Gustafsson, Björn; Österberg, Torun - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
The objective of this paper is to examine the extent to which an individual’s use of unemployment insurance (UI) as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763677