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Immigration and unemployment in Europe : does the core-periphery dualism matter?
Esposito, Piero; Collignon, Stefan; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2019
In this paper, we assess the impact of immigration and unemployment for a sample of 15 EU countries between 1997 and 2016. We test for the existence of a core-periphery dualism based on differences in macroeconomic fundamentals and labour market characteristics. We use a Panel Error Correction...
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Happiness as a guide to labor market policy : happiness is key to a productive economy, and a job is key to individual happiness
Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2015
Measures of individual happiness, or well-being, can guide labor market policies. Individual unemployment, as well as the rate of unemployment in society, have a negative effect on happiness. In contrast, employment protection and unemployment benefits can contribute to happiness - though when...
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Unemployment and subjective well-being
Suppa, Nicolai - 2021
This chapter summarizes the latest state of the art in economic research on unemployment and subjective well-being. Outcomes covered are general life satisfaction, affective well-being, and mental health. Special attention is paid to empirical evidence as obtained from popular panel data sets....
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Towards an East German wage curve : NUTS boundaries, labour market regions and unemployment spillovers
Kosfeld, Reinhold; Dreger, Christian - 2017
The relevance of spatial effects in the wage curve can be rationalized by the model of monopsonistic competition in regional labour markets. However, distortions in extracting the regional unemployment effects arise in standard regional (i.e. NUTS) classifications as they fail to adequately...
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Duration dependence as an unemployment stigma : evidence from a field experiment in Germany
Nüß, Patrick - 2017
Based on a correspondence experiment covering 3,124 fictitious job applications, the paper identifies and quantifies duration dependence in Germany, with a particular emphasis on company and vacancy characteristics as potential determinants. The experiment reveals that duration dependence...
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Unemploymentand health : a panel event study
Raftopoulou, Athina; Giannakopoulos, Nicholas - 2021
Adopting a panel event study framework, we estimate the effect of unemployment on health outcomes by exploiting the variation in the timing of entering unemployment using longitudinal data for Greece. We find, that in the periods ahead of an unemployment event, health outcomes decline and unmet...
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Lohnspreizung und Arbeitslosigkeit : theoretische Erklärungsansätze und Stand empirischer Forschung
Kohnz, Simone; Erber, Georg - 2000
The origin of increasing income inequality and strategies to influence this unwarranted development has stimulated … wage inequality. The paper summarizes major theoretical arguments to explain these developments based on a simple … income inequality, the increasing supply of skilled workers influences income in the opposite direction. A third set of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011432623
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Trade, technology and labour markets : empirical controversies in the light of the Jones model
Pflüger, Michael - 2003
The deterioration of the income and employment position of unskilled workers in the OECD since the 1980s is a well-documented fact. The debate about the causes of this development is dominated by two competing hypotheses, "North-South Trade" ("globalisation") and technological progress. Several...
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Monopolistic competition, optimum product diversity, and international trade : the role of factor endowment and factor intensities
Marjit, Sugata; Mandal, Biswajit - 2021 - This draft August, 2021
-Stiglitz-Krugman model. Later we reflect on wage inequality and unemployment providing some interesting results. …
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Sexual orientation discrimination in the labor market against gay men
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
The study replicates the first European field experiment on gay men's labor market prospects in Greece. Utilizing the same protocol as the original study in 2006-2007, two follow-up field experiments took place in 2013-2014 and 2018-2019. The study estimated that gay men experienced occupational...
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