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Surviving unemployment without state support : unemployment and household formation in South Africa

Klasen, Stephan; Woolard, Ingrid - 2001

to getaccess to resources without support from unemployment compensation. Analysing a household survey from 1995, we find … that the household formation response of the unemployed is the critical way in which they assure access to resources. In … particular, unemployment delays the setting up of an individual household of young people, in some cases by decades. It also …

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Unemployment and domestic violence : theory and evidence

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; … - 2013

Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The contribution of this paper is to examine, theoretically and empirically, how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of domestic abuse. The key theoretical prediction is that male...

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Does paternity leave promote gender equality within households?

González, Libertad; Zoabi, Hosny - 2021

We consider a non-cooperative model of the household, in which the husband and wife decide on parental leave and the …

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Quantifying domestic violence in times of crisis

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Siuda, Fabian - 2020

We propose a model that (i) provides an algorithm for measuring temporal variation in domestic violence incidence based on internet search activity and (ii) makes precise the conditions under which this measure yields less biased estimates of the domestic violence problem during periods of...

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Deterrence or backlash? : arrests and the dynamics of domestic violence

Amaral, Sofia; Dahl, Gordon B.; Endl-Geyer, Victoria; … - 2023

There is a vigorous debate on whether arrests for domestic violence (DV) will deter future abuse or create a retaliatory backlash. We study how arrests affect the dynamics of DV using administrative data for over 124,000 DV emergency calls (999 calls) for West Midlands, the second most populous...

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A spatial perspective on European integration : heterogeneous welfare and migration effects from the single market and the Brexit

Henkel, Marcel; Seidel, Tobias - 2016

We use a quantitative model to study the implications of European integration for welfare and migration flows across 1,318 regions. The model suggests that an increase of trade barriers to the level of 1957 reduces welfare by about 1-2 percent on average, depending on the presumed trade...

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Regional equilibrium unemployment theory at the age of the internet

Lutgen, Vanessa; Van der Linden, Bruno - 2015

This paper studies equilibrium unemployment in a two-region economy with matching frictions, where workers and jobs are free to move and wages are bargained over. Job-seekers choose between searching locally or searching in both regions. Search-matching externalities are amplified by the latter...

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Fiscal transfers in the spatial economy

Henkel, Marcel; Seidel, Tobias; Südekum, Jens - 2018

Many countries operate pronounced fiscal equalization schemes that shift tax revenue across jurisdictions. We use a general equilibrium model with multiple asymmetric regions, costly trade and labor mobility to carve out the aggregate implications of this policy. Calibrating the model for...

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What do we know about the relationship between regionalized aspects of the unemployment insurance system and internal migration in Canada?/ Kathleen M. Day; Stanley L. Winer

Day, Kathleen Mary; Winer, Stanley L. - 2011

The purpose of this paper is to critically review the past four decades of empirical research on the relationship between internal migration and regional variation in the generosity of Canada's unemployment insurance system. It has long been argued that because the Canadian insurance system is...

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The geographical determinants of within-city heterogeneity in urban density

Krause, Melanie; Seidel, André - 2020

This paper studies the impact of building land limitations on within-city variation in urban density and its components crowding, residential coverage, and building height. We utilise geographical obstacles like steep inclines or water bodies as exogenous source of building land limitations...

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