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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"...
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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...
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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,...
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offset by widespread poverty and lack of unemployment insurance, leading to overall faster transitions in low income …
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(carrots) and restrictive (sticks) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations …, employment, and post-unemployment earnings using register data that contain PES and case-worker identifiers for about 130,000 job … seekers. The results show that "carrots" and "sticks" treatments prolong unemployment, but carrots increase earnings whereas …
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unemployment rate and the actual unemployment rate in the country, which is a meaningful indicator of their misperception of labor … model includes: controls for the worker's ability; country-specific fixed effects; the unemployment rate in the region of … residence, which might be the benchmark respondents have in mind when reporting their perception of the national unemployment …
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received a brochure that informed them about job search strategies and the consequences of unemployment, and motivated them to … individuals who exhibit an increased risk of long-term unemployment. For this group, the brochure increases employment and …
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sudden increase in labour force participation and unemployment during this period. However, since these individuals would … in unemployment signifies a more accurate reflection of disguised unemployment that already existed in the mid-1990s …
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This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high … to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported reservation wages decline at a modest rate over the spell of unemployment, with … point estimates ranging from 0.05 to 0.14 percent per week of unemployment. The decline in reservation wages is driven …
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This paper examines whether unemployment of non-western immigrant workers in the Netherlands was disproportionally … affected by the Great Recession. We analyze unemployment data covering the period November 2007 to February 2013 finding that … the Great Recession affected unemployment rates of non-western immigrant workers in absolute terms more than unemployment …
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