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Getting disabled workers back to work : how important are economic incentives?

Fevang, Elisabeth; Hardoy, Inés; Røed, Knut - 2013

We investigate the impacts of economic incentives on the duration and outcome of temporary disability insurance (TDI … of TDI benefits significantly affects the transition rate to alternative social insurance programs such as permanent …

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Immigrant responses to social insurance generosity

Bratsberg, Bernt; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Røed, Knut - 2018

impacts of social insurance benefits on work incentives. Drawing on a benefit formula reform of the temporary disability … insurance program, we identify behavioral employment and earnings responses to changes in benefits, and find that responses are … to more generous benefits. We uncover stronger behavioral responses among natives with characteristics similar to those …

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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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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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The determinants of female labour supply in Belarus

Pastore, Francesco (contributor); … - 2008

Unlike in many other transition countries, where the gender pay gap has remained stable while female employment rates have reduced, in the case of Belarus women' activity rate has been practically unchanged despite an increase in the gender pay gap. This paper investigates why this is the case...

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Delayed graduation and overeducation : a test of the human capital model versus the screening hypothesis

Aina, Carmen; Pastore, Francesco - 2012

The academic circles are devoting a growing interest to delayed graduation and overeducation, but none has analyzed the joint consequences of these two phenomena. Thus, this paper studies the link between graduation not within the minimum period and overeducation, and the effects of these...

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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: a disease of the school-to-work transition system

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2015

This paper aims to survey the theoretical and empirical literature on cross-country differences in overeducation. While technological change and globalization have entailed a skill-bias in the evolution of labour demand in the Anglo-Saxon countries, instead, in other advanced economies in...

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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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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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