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duration dependence in Germany, with a particular emphasis on company and vacancy characteristics as potential determinants …. The experiment reveals that duration dependence manifests itself in a sharp decline of 26% to 35% in callbacks when an … individual has been unemployed for 10 months, pointing to the existence of an unemployment stigma for Germany. The results are …
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Recent evidence from large-scale field experiments has shown that employers use job candidates’ unemployment duration … duration of unemployment on hiring intentions is mediated by the four theories. The lower hiring chances of the long … unemployment durations. In addition, these participants rate the job candidates on statements central to four theoretical …
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We study the impact of early cannabis use on the school to work transition of young men. Our empirical approach accounts for common unobserved confounders that jointly affect selection into cannabis use and the transition from school to work using a multivariate mixed proportional hazard...
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We study how unemployment benefit eligibility affects the layoff exit rate by exploiting quasi-experimental variation … 12% in the layoff probability when unemployment benefit eligibility is attained, which persists for about 16 weeks. These …
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Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country fixed effects are added to panel … estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries - Austria; Belgium … predict changes in the unemployment rate 12 months in advance based on individuals' fears of unemployment, their perceptions …
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historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much … larger. Therefore, we point to the clear limitations of the unemployment rate as the (single) key macro-economic indicator of … the health of the labour market. A parsimonious dashboard approach utilising the unemployment-to-population ratio and the …
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Russian labour market, the unemployment growth. The purpose of the work is to find out which effects dominate in the Russian … were empirically tested: 1) the dependence of the unemployment rate on the degree of concentration or diversification is … concentration or diversification on the level of unemployment depends on the time period. To test these hypotheses nonparametric …
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The present research provides evidence on the determinants driving the differences in the unemployment …
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This paper studies the effect of the business cycle on the marriage rate, using a panel data of 30 European countries covering 1991 to 2013. We find a negative effect of the business cycle on the marriage rate, pointing to the pro-cyclical behaviour of marriage decisions, which holds after...
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transitions of workers with secondary and higher education. We focus on transitions from employment to unemployment and on job … Survey on Labour Participation and Unemployment (PLUS), we calculate three measures of vertical mismatch. This allows … unemployment risk, through a Routine Task Index (RTI) calculated on Italian data. Results indicate that mismatched workers are at …
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