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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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Employment Status, Endogenous Regional Mobility, and Spatial Dependencies in Labor Markets

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2002

This paper investigates spatial correlation in the matching process of vacant jobs and job seekers. The importance of the interactions of regional labor markets in West Germany is highlighted in several dimensions. We test for spatial autocorrelation in regional hires, unemployment and vacancy...

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Employment Status, Endogenous Regional Mobility, and Spatial Dependencies in Labor Markets

Sunde, Uwe; Fahr, René - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763605

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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Work, Jobs and Well-Being across the Millennium

Clark, Andrew E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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Wage Employment, Unemployment and Self-Employment across Countries

Poschke, Markus - 2019

Poor countries have low rates of wage employment and high rates of self-employment. This paper shows that they also have high rates of unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment is particularly high where the unemployment-wage employment ratio is high. I interpret high...

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Entrepreneurship, economic conditions, and the Great Recession

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2011

opportunities in the wage/salary sector leaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdata … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed light on this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market … conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability …

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Creative unemployment

Røed, Knut; Skogstrøm, Jens Fredrik - 2010

We examine the impact of job loss on entrepreneurship behavior in Norway. Our identification strategy relies on the use …

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The Perceived Well-Being and Health Costs of Exiting Self-Employment

Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris; Popova, Olga - 2020

this traumatic event. Our findings imply that policies encouraging entrepreneurship should also carefully consider the …

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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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