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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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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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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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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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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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Much ado about nothing? : the wage effect of holding a Ph.D. degree but not a Ph.D. job position

Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio; Lubrano Lavadera, Giuseppe; … - 2016

This paper contributes to the literature on overeducation by empirically investigating its effects on wages among Ph.D. holders. We analyze data collected in 2009 by the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) through a large cross-sectional survey of Ph.D. recipients that allowed us...

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When do gender wage differences emerge? : a study of Azerbaijan's labor market

Pastore, Francesco; Sattar, Sarosh; Sinha, Nistha; … - 2016

Building on recent analyses that find a sizeable, overall gender wage gap in Azerbaijan's workforce, this paper uses data on young workers in their early years in the labor market to understand how gender wage gaps evolve over time, if at all. Using a unique database from a survey of young...

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Why so slow? : the school-to-work transition in Italy

Pastore, Francesco - 2017

) unemployment. Important reforms of several tiles of the Italian SWT regime - the Jobs Act, important fiscal incentives to hiring …

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Delayed graduation and university dropout : a review of theoretical approaches

Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2019

This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...

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