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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...

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Immigrant labor, child care services, and the work fertility trade-off in the United States

Furtado, Delia (contributor); Hock, Heinrich (contributor) - 2008

The negative correlation between female employment and fertility in industrialized nations has weakened since the 1960s …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003719621

Job search and unemployment insurance : new evidence from time use data

Krueger, Alan B. (contributor); Müller, Andreas (contributor) - 2008

This paper provides new evidence on job search intensity of the unemployed in the U.S., modeling job search intensity as time allocated to job search activities. The main findings are: 1) the average unemployed worker in the U.S. devotes about 41 minutes to job search on weekdays, which is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003752850

The prevalence and effects of occupational licensing

Kleiner, Morris M. (contributor); … - 2008

This study provides the first nation-wide analysis of the labor market implications of occupational licensing for the U.S. labor market, using data from a specially designed Gallup survey. We find that in 2006, 29 percent of the workforce was required to hold an occupational license from a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003754928

Wage formation between newly hired workers and employers : survey evidence

Hall, Robert Ernest (contributor); … - 2008

Some workers bargain with prospective employers before accepting a job. Others could bargain, but find it undesirable, because their right to bargain has induced a sufficiently favorable offer, which they accept. Yet others perceive that they cannot bargain over pay; they regard the posted wage...

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Human capital and interethnic marriage decisions

Furtado, Delia (contributor) - 2006

Despite a longstanding belief that education importantly affects the process of immigrant assimilation, little is known about the relative importance of different mechanisms linking these two processes. This paper explores this issue through an examination of the effects of human capital on one...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003283435

Cross-nativity marriages and human capital levels of children

Furtado, Delia (contributor) - 2009

A common perception about immigrant assimilation is that association with natives necessarily speeds the process by which immigrants become indistinguishable from natives. Using 2000 Census data, this paper casts doubt on this presumption by examining the effect of an immigrant's marriage to a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794040

I'll marry you if you get me a job : marital assimilation and immigrant employment rates

Furtado, Delia (contributor); … - 2009

Marriage to a native has a theoretically ambiguous impact on immigrant employment rates. Utilizing 2000 U.S. Census … suggest that marriage to a native increases an immigrant's employment probability by approximately four percentage points. The … the intermarriage decision. -- Intermarriage ; employment ; immigration …

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Automatic stabilizers and economic crisis : US vs. Europe

Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2009

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the tax and transfer systems in the European Union and the US to act as an automatic stabilizer in the current economic crisis. We find that automatic stabilizers absorb 38 per cent of a proportional income shock in the EU, compared to 32 per cent in the...

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Why does intermarriage increase immigrant employment? ; the role of networks

Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2010

probability of immigrant employment. We start by confirming in both least squares and instrumental variables frameworks that … marriage to a native indeed increases immigrant employment rates. Next, we show that the returns to marrying a native are not … relationship between marriage decisions and employment. -- immigration ; marriage ; employment ; networks …

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