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We ask whether local agglomeration affects how recessions impact on entrepreneurship by comparing the probability of being an entrepreneur before and after the Great 2008 Recession in local labour markets where industrial districts are present and in comparable areas. Using Italian Labour Force...
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This paper examines the impact of housing tenure choice on unemployment duration in Belgium using EU‐SILC micro data … simultaneously estimate unemployment duration by a mixed proportional hazard model, and the probability of being an outright … the causal influence of different types of housing tenure on unemployment duration, we use instrumental variables. Our …
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Persistent unemployment across OECD countries has led to increasing investments in activation programmes and, as a …
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We investigate the importance of employer preferences in explaining Sticky Floors, the pattern that women are, compared to men, less likely to start to climb the job ladder. To this end we perform a randomised field experiment in the Belgian labour market and test whether hiring discrimination...
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Recent evidence from large-scale field experiments has shown that employers use job candidates' unemployment duration … unemployment durations. In addition, these participants rate the job candidates on statements central to four theoretical … mechanisms often related to the scarring effect of unemployment: general signalling theory, (perceived) skill loss, queuing …
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market variables, such as unemployment, wage differentials and employment protection, and to the funding of tertiary …
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addition to unemployment benefits when they are dismissed. Therefore, we conduct a state-of-the-art scenario experiment in … - from partaking in this regime because it seemingly mitigates the regular stigmatisation of long-term unemployment …
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has both a higher inflow rate into unemployment and a higher efficiency of the matching process. While the combined effort …
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has both a higher inflow rate into unemployment and a higher efficiency of the matching process. While the combined effort …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325670