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Ora et non labora? : a test of the impact of religion on female labor supply

Pastore, Francesco; Tenaglia, Simona - 2013

This paper examines the influence of religion on female participation to the labor market using data relative to women aged between 18 and 60 years in 47 European countries drawn from the European Values Study (EVS). We investigate the determinants of the probability of being employed rather...

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Experiments on unemployment benefit sanctions and job search behavior

Boone, Jan (contributor); Sadrieh, Abdolkarim (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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How effective are unemployment benefit sanctions? : looking beyond unemployment exit

Arni, Patrick; Lalive, Rafael; Ours, Jan C. van - 2009

This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions, i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits …

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How changes in unemployment benefit duration affect the inflow into unemployment

Ours, Jan C. van; Tuit, Sander - 2010

August 2003, workers who became unemployed after age 57.5 were entitled to unemployment benefits until the age of 65, after …

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Carrot and stick : how reemployment bonuses and benefit sanctions affect job finding rates

Klaauw, Bas van der; Ours, Jan C. van - 2010

various financial incentives, including both carrots to sticks. Once their benefit spell exceeded one year, welfare recipients … punished for noncompliance with eligibility requirements and face a sanction, i.e. a temporary reducing of their benefits. In … bonuses were not. -- welfare to work ; financial incentives ; timing-of-events ; dynamic selection …

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Modeling financial incentives to get unemployed back to work

Boone, Jan; Ours, Jan C. van - 2000

We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job search guidelines - affect unemployment. In our analysis we find that not only micro effects concerning the behavior of individual unemployed workers are relevant, but also...

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The gender gap in early career in Mongolia

Pastore, Francesco - 2009

Relatively little is known about the youth labour market in general and about gender differences in Mongolia, one of the fifty poorest countries in the world. This paper addresses the issue by taking advantage of a School to Work Survey (SWTS) on young people aged 15-29 years carried out in...

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Talking about the pigou paradox : socio-educational background and educational outcomes of AlmaLaurea

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2011

Italy has an immobile social structure. At the heart of this immobility is the educational system, with its high direct, but especially indirect cost, due to the extremely long time necessary to get a degree and to complete the subsequent school-to-work transition. Such cost prevents the...

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Overeducation at a glance : determinants and wage effects of the educational mismatch, looking at the AlmaLaurea data

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2013

This paper provides the first available evidence on overeducation/overskilling based on AlmaLaurea data. We focus on jobs held 5 years after graduation by pre-reform graduates in 2005. Overeducation/overskilling are relatively high - at 11.4 and 8% - when compared to EU economies. Ceteris...

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Gender differences in earnings and labor supply in early career : evidence from Kosovo's school-to-work transition survey

Pastore, Francesco; Sattar, Sarosh; Tiongson, Erwin R. - 2013

Very little is known about gender wage disparities in Kosovo and, to date, nothing is known about how such wage disparities evolve over time, particularly during the first few years spent by young workers in the labor market. More generally, not much is known about gender wage gaps in early...

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