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large and persistent negative relationships between unemployment and the risk of repeated unemployment and being out of … unemployment has a negative effect on later labor market attachment. This is consistent with existing findings in the literature … present in the data before changing the inference. Thus, unemployment leaves young workers with long-term scars …
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This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on unemployment in a panel of 19 OECD countries for the … of the unemployment rate. Our novel contribution is the estimation of panel models where we allow for heterogeneous … effects of institutions on unemployment. Our main results are that on the average a tighter employment protection, a higher …
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Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984-2009, we follow persons from their working life into their retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long-term unemployed people report a substantial increase in...
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a highly indebted open economy. In contrast to the standard open economy framework, search unemployment and wage … intertemporal welfare gain, even though unemployment increases strongly in the short run. A 50% haircut of foreign debt … significantly reduces the initial response of the unemployment rate. In case of a temporary productivity shock, sticky wages imply …
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We investigate empirically the effect of government purchases on unemployment in 20 OECD countries, for the period 1960 …-2007. Compared to earlier studies we use a data set with more variation in unemployment, and which allows for controlling for a host … unemployment; an increase equal to one percent of GDP reduces unemployment by 0.2 percentage point in the same year. The effect is …
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between internal migration and regional variation in the generosity of Canada's unemployment insurance system. It has long …
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unemployment as well as across different subgroups of participants. We find that participating in short-term training reduces the … remaining time in unemployment and moderately increases job stability. Long-term training programs initially prolong the … remaining time in unemployment, but once the scheduled program end is reached participants exit to employment at a much faster …
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terrorism are robustly associated with larger populations and higher unemployment rates. This suggests that both may be …
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hypothesis that locals will provide more tips to the enforcement agency when unemployment is high, we find that the number of … audits conducted grows with increased local unemployment. We also find that a congressman's party affiliation and its …
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Unemployment Insurance (UI) scheme in which job search requirements are imposed on UI recipients with hyperbolic preferences. We …
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