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The lot of the unemployed : a time use perspective
Krueger, Alan B. (contributor); Müller, Andreas (contributor) - 2008
This paper provides new evidence on time use and subjective well-being of employed and unemployed individuals in 14 countries. We devote particular attention to characterizing and modeling job search intensity, measured by the amount of time devoted to searching for a new job. Job search...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716529
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Unemployment insurance in Europe : unemployment duration and subsequent employment stability
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos (contributor) - 2006
"The empirical literature on unemployment insurance has focused on its direct effect on unemployment duration, while the potential indirect effect on employment stability through a more efficient matching process, as the unemployed can search for a longer period, has attracted much less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003359283
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Unequal pay or unequal employment? : A cross-country analysis of gender gaps
Olivetti, Claudia (contributor);  … - 2006
explore this idea across the US and EU by estimating gender gaps in potential wages. We recover information on wages for those … small in the US, the UK and most central and northern EU countries, and becomes sizeable in Ireland, France and southern EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003332302
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Female labor market transitions in Europe
Kaiser, Lutz C. (contributor) - 2006
Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year … analyses mainly refer to female labor supply. In search for important determinants of these transitions, six EU-countries with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003316483
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EU enlargement under continued mobility restrictions : consequences for the German labor market
Brenke, Karl; Yuksel, Mutlu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004 …. Following enlargement, the net inflow of EU8 immigrants has become 2.5 times larger than the four-year period before enlargement …. Poles constitute the largest immigrant group among the EU8 immigrants: since enlargement, 63% of all immigrants and 71% of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824777
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Trust and control at the workplace : evidence from representative samples of employees in Europe
Grund, Christian; Harbring, Christine - 2009
Based on two representative samples of employees, the German Socio Economic Panel and the European Social Survey, we explore the relation between certain measures of control in employment relationships (i.e. working time regulations, use of performance appraisal systems, monitoring by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879332
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Expected inflation, sunspots equilibria and persistent unemployment fluctuations
Dufourt, Frédéric; Lloyd-Braga, Teresa; Modesto, Leonor - 2009
We propose and estimate a model where unemployment fluctuations result from self-fulfilling changes in expected inflation (sunspot shocks) affecting nominal wage bargaining. Since the estimated parameters fall near the locus of Hopf bifurcations, country-specific expected inflation shocks can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879337
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A note on unhappiness and unemployment duration
Clark, Andrew E. (contributor) - 2006
Although it is now widely-accepted that unemployment is associated with sharply lower levels of individual well-being, relatively little is known about how this effect depends on unemployment duration. Data from three large-scale European panels is used to shed light on this issue; these data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003490824
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The reservation wage unemployment duration nexus
Addison, John T.; Machado, José A. F.; Portugal, Pedro - 2010
A thorny problem in identifying the determinants of reservation wages and particularly the role of continued joblessness in their evolution is the simultaneity issue. We deploy a natural control function approach to the problem that involves conditioning elapsed duration on completed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008778692
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Productivity and size of the export market : evidence for West and East German plants, 2004
Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2007
Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality data at the plant level, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003539184