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High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well … sensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in the public sector than in the private … unemployment. …
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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...
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unemployment to employment using detailed Danish event history data obtained from administrative registers. We find large positive …
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participation in unemployment spells - to assess the nature of labour market policy effectiveness. The experiment was conducted in … increases in the exit rate from unemployment ranging from 20 to 40%. When introducing time-varying indicators for the various … rate from unemployment, neither during the week in which the activity takes place, nor after the activity is completed …
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her first six months in unemployment – enters the employment office for the first time, this model predicts whether he or …
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Labour market assimilation of Danish first generation male immigrants is analysed based on two panel data sets covering the population of immigrants and 10% of the Danish population during 1984-1995. Wages and employment probabilities are estimated jointly in a random effects model which...
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This article compares and contrasts male immigrant labor market experiences in Sweden and Denmark during the period 1985 - 1995. Using register-based panel data sets from Sweden and Denmark, a picture of the employment assimilation process of immigrants from Norway, Poland, Turkey, and Iran is...
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unemployment into either new job or recall. The recall probability is allowed to affect the search intensity for new jobs. …
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unemployment and labour market exclusion. The main findings of the study are that low levels of education and working experience … unemployment and nonparticipation. There is also evidence of budget constraints that eventually lead to decreasing reservation … wages or increasing search intensity, as unemployment spells become very long. We discuss some policy implications of our …
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We consider the consequences of working part-time on supplementary unemployment insurance benefits in the Danish labour … out of unemployment insurance benefit receipt. We find evidence of a negative lock-in effect and a positive post …-treatment effect, both of which vary across individuals. The resulting net effect on the expected unemployment duration is positive for …
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