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European Labour Mobility : Challenges and Potentials

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2004

European Union economies are pressed by (i) a demographic change that induces population ageing and a decline of the workforce, and (ii) a split labour market that is characterized by high levels of unemployment for low-skilled people and a simultaneous shortage of skilled workers. This lack of...

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Work, jobs and well-being across the millennium

Clark, Andrew E. - 2009

This paper uses repeated cross-section data ISSP data from 1989, 1997 and 2005 to consider movements in job quality. It is first underlined that not having a job when you want one is a major source of low well-being. Second, job values have remained fairly stable over time, although workers seem...

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Labor Market Assimilation and the Self- Employment Decision of Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999

This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment...

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Self-Employment and Earnings among High-Skilled Immigrants in the United States

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000

This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...

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Self-Employment and Earnings among High-Skilled Immigrants in the United States

Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

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Labor Market Assimilation and the Self-Employment Decision of Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763871

Unemployment insurance and entrepreneurship

Røed, Knut; Baumgarten Skogstrøm, Jens Fredrik - 2013

programs (ALMP) affect the transition rates from unemployment to regular employment and entrepreneurship. We find that the … entrepreneurship hazard is highly responsive with respect to UI incentives, and that the probability of starting up a new business … employment hazard, it has no effect on entrepreneurship. We speculate that this reflects the programs' one-sided focus on job …

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Gerontocracy in motion? : European cross-country evidence on the labor market consequences of population ageing

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2003

Taking a European cross-country perspective, this paper addresses the most important issues in the nexus of population ageing and labor markets. We start from a descriptive overview of the demographic change currently shaping European societies. The subsequent section intensively discusses the...

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The Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment: Relative Demand Shocks, Wage Rigidities, and Temporary Immigrants

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003

Switzerland, traditionally a ?zero unemployment? economy, has seen an unprecedented rise in joblessness in the 1990s although unemployment fell again to a rather low level after 1997. This paper tests whether Switzerland experienced a negative relative net demand shock against the low skilled...

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The Use of Alternative Work Arrangements by the Jobless : Evidence from the CAEAS/CPS

Addison, John T.; Surfield, Christopher J. - 2004

Alternative work arrangements (AWAs), such as contracting, consulting, and temporary work, have been criticized as providing only atypical, even precarious, employment. Yet they may also allow workers to locate suitable job matches. Exploiting data from all four Contingent and Alternative...

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