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Teenage motherhood and long-run outcomes in South Africa
Gustafsson, Siv S.; Worku, Seble - 2007
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Teenage motherhood and long-run outcomes in South Africa
Gustafsson, Siv S.; Worku, Seble - 2007
thousand Coloured South African women were teenage mothers as compared to 8 among Indian South Africans and 3 among White South …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372523
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Wages and employment in a random social network with arbitrary degree distribution
Ioannides, Yannis M.; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2006
Empirical studies of labor markets show that social contacts are an important source of job-related information [Ioannides and Loury (2004)]. At the same time, wage differences among workers may be explained only in part by differences in individual background characteristics. Such findings...
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Labor market transitions of members of opposite-sex couples : nonparticipation, unemployed search, and employment
Bloemen, Hans G. - 2021
transitions between the states of nonparticipation, unemployed search, and employment. Motivated by a model of household search … nonparticipation (both out of unemployed search and employment) are positively affected by the husband's income (while no effect is … found for transitions out of nonparticipation). Men seem to move from employment into unemployed search easier the higher is …
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Marriage markets and single motherhood in South Africa
Gustafsson, Siv S.; Worku, Seble - 2006
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Wages and employment in a random social network with arbitrary degree distribution
Ioannides, Yannis M.; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003290383
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Structural estimation of search intensity : do non-employed workers search enough?
Gautier, Pieter; Moraga-González, José Luis; … - 2007
We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....
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Car ownership and the labor market of ethnic minorities
Gautier, Pieter; Zenou, Yves - 2008
We show how small initial wealth differences between low skilled black and white workers can generate large differences in their labor-market outcomes. This even occurs in the absence of a taste for discrimination against blacks or exogenous differences in the distance to jobs. Because of the...
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The duration of unemployment in Russia
Grogan, Louise Anne; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 1999
This paper uses longitudinal survey data to assess factors affecting the duration of unemployment in Russia. We examine four types of marginalised labour force participants, according to ILO guidelines and survey responses, and we estimate duration models for each type. It turns out that the...
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Do stepping stone jobs exist? : early career paths in the medical profession
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Holm, Anders; Ours, Jan C. van - 1999
In the Netherlands, students who want to become a medical specialist have toenrol in a training program which is in limited supply. During the search for aposition as trainee (or "junior medical specialist"), they may accept atemporary job as a medical assistant. We use a micro data set to...
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