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Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia … from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes …
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Scholars have been examining the relationship between fertility and unemployment for more than a century. Most studies … find that fertility falls with unemployment in the short run, but it is not known whether these negative effects persist … period 1975 to 2010, we analyze both the short and long-run effects of unemployment on fertility. We follow fixed cohorts of …
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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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little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration …
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negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …
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, unemployment rates, and wages in fixed-effects regressions which effectively use changes in these indicators over time within … the response to unemployment shocks in these economies. In India, the unemployment rate does not seem to be a reliable …
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This paper studies the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on global knowledge production. We present four key findings. First, among Nobel Prize winners and Fields Medalists, migrants to the U.S. play a central role in the global knowledge network- representing 20-33% of the frontier knowledge...
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We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI …
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We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S.. Using two … complementary decompositions, we show the importance for the comparative evolution of aggregate unemployment of changes in the … marginally attached displaying behavior lying between unemployment and non-attachment. The three non-employment states are …
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mostly explained by the higher unemployment rate during a recession, together with the fact that at all times, unemployed …
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