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Health and well-being are socially determined. One of the ways in which this comes about is via social comparisons with other individuals in the same personal, geographic or social networks, with the comparisons referring either to income or other aspects of economic and social life. The...
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Parental divorce has been an increasing experience amongst the generations of children born since the 1970s in European … of the adult demographic behaviour of children who experienced parental divorce (compared with those who did not) are …
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The paper investigates the relationship between work and family life in Britain. Using appropriate statistical techniques we estimate a five-equation model, which includes birth events, union formation, union dissolution, employment and non-employment events. The model allows for unobserved...
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We analyze the impact of an increase in the risk of divorce on the saving behaviour of married couples. From a … theoretical perspective, the expected sign of the effect is ambiguous. We take advantage of the legalization of divorce in Ireland … experience a significant increase in the expected risk of divorce (such as very religious families, or single individuals). Our …
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allowing on-the-job search. We obtain that the elasticity of unemployment with respect to growth shrinks from 1.63 to 0 … search process than the unemployed. Thus, we show that, rather than contributing to unemployment, creative destruction …
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finds equivocal effects on other aggregate outcomes, such as employment and unemployment. Given weaknesses in the …
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. Disaggregation by gender is necessary. Endogeneity of participation levels with respect to unemployment is treated in two ways, by … unemployment cannot be rejected. …
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. The Beveridge curve depicts the steady state of the model, whereby inflows into unemployment are equal to the outflows …
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We study the response of domestic unemployment rates to shocks in total factor productivity for economies with high … by developed nations in the last twenty years, substantially amplify the impact on the domestic unemployment rate of …
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becoming unemployed, the costs of unemployment in terms of real wages losses and the probability that the continuously employed …
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