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State dependence in unemployment incidence : evidence for British men revisited
Arulampalam, Wiji - 2002
unemployment. In addition, allowance is also made to accommodate the "stayer" phenomenon in the state of employment. All these were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414818
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The elusive concept of immigrant quality : evidence from 1970-1990
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2002
The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public policy concern. However, traditional methods of measuring human capital are particularly difficult to apply to recently arrived immigrants. Many factors that have a negative effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414835
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Low paid employment in Britain : estimating state-dependence and stepping stone effects
Cai, Lixin; Mavromaras, Kostas G.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2016
low pay. A distinguishing feature is that five types of transition- not in the labour force (NILF), unemployment, self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449757
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The emotional timeline of unemployment : anticipation, reaction, and adaptation
Scheve, Christian von; Esche, Frederike; Schupp, Jürgen - 2013
Unemployment continues to be one of the major challenges in industrialized societies. Aside from its economic … dimensions and societal repercussions, questions concerning the individual experience of unemployment have recently attracted … increasing attention. Although many studies have documented the detrimental effects of unemployment for subjective well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196016
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The role of social work norms in job searching and subjective well-being
Stutzer, Alois; Lalive, Rafael - 2003 - revised December 2003
Social norms are usually neglected in economics, because they are to a large extent enforced through non-market interactions and difficult to isolate empirically. In this paper, we offer a direct measure of the social norm to work and we show that this norm has important economic effects. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401423
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The effect of doubling the minimum wage on employment : evidence from Russia
Muravyev, Alexander; Oščepkov, Aleksej Ju. - 2015
We take advantage of a natural experiment in the minimum wage setting in Russia to study the employment consequences of large hikes in the minimum wage. In September 2007, the Russian government raised the federal minimum wage from 1,100 to 2,300 Rubles and simultaneously gave the regions the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011427802
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An unfulfilled promise? : higher education quality and professional underemployment in Peru
Yamada, Gustavo; Lavado, Pablo; Martínez, Joan J. - 2015
Despite the high growth of the Peruvian economy during the last decade, college graduates are facing increasing difficulties to find occupations that match their higher educational background, skills and educational investments. This scenario is embodied in the "professional underemployment"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011427813
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Do the unemployed accept jobs too quickly? : a comparison with employed job seekers
Longhi, Simonetta - 2015
This paper analyses differences between unemployed and employed job seekers in job finding rates and in the quality of the job found. Compared to the unemployed, employed job seekers have a smaller pool of job offers that they consider acceptable; this leads to lower job finding rates but better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283136
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Mandatory volunteer work as fair reciprocity for unemployment and social benefits?
Veldboer, Lex; Kleinhans, Reinout; Ham, Maarten van - 2015
Modern welfare policies are increasingly based on notions of reciprocity. Citizens on welfare benefits have to do something in return, e.g. volunteer work. Notwithstanding general public support, social philosophers have been critical on 'mandatory' activities in community programmes. So far,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283145
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Pathways from school to work in the developing world
Manacorda, Marco; Rosati, Furio Camillo; Ranzani, Marco; … - 2015
offset by widespread poverty and lack of unemployment insurance, leading to overall faster transitions in low income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376271