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Unemployment benefits and job match quality : do unemployment benefits help those seeking work to obtain better jobs?

Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2014

Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and …

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Unemployment and happiness : successful policies for helping the unemployed need to confront the adverse effects of unemployment on feelings of life satisfaction

Winkelmann, Rainer - 2014

Many studies document a large negative effect of unemployment on happiness. Recent research has looked into factors …, for helping the unemployed back into work, and for more evenly distributing the burden of unemployment resulting from …

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Happiness as a guide to labor market policy : happiness is key to a productive economy, and a job is key to individual happiness

Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2015

Measures of individual happiness, or well-being, can guide labor market policies. Individual unemployment, as well as … the rate of unemployment in society, have a negative effect on happiness. In contrast, employment protection and … unemployment benefits can contribute to happiness - though when such policies prolong unemployment, the net effect on national …

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The use of spatial filtering techniques : the spatial and space-time structure of German unemployment data

Patuelli, Roberto; Griffith, Daniel A.; Tiefelsdorf, Michael - 2006

pertaining to regional unemployment in Germany. The available data set comprises information about the share of unemployed …

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How can temporary work agencies provide more training? : staffing agencies could play a more prominent role in the provision of training for the low qualified and previously unempl...

Spermann, Alexander - 2016

Temporary work agencies use training as a recruitment and retention argument when qualified labor is scarce. However, short job assignments present a major obstacle for employers and employees to increase investment in training. As temporary agency workers are mainly low-qualified and often...

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Temporary agency work : temporary agency work is not generally a stepping-stone to regular employment

Houseman, Susan N. - 2014

Temporary agency work has expanded in most advanced economies since the 1990s, but its growth has been controversial. Some argue that these jobs offer experience and contact with potential employers, serving as a path to regular employment, particularly for low-skilled workers. Others view them...

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