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economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline in employment and rise in unemployment in … shows that, at least for the time being, unemployment increases have been contained in countries with comparatively strong … further dualization of labour markets given that risks are allocated unequally across types of employment …
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country after a period of no-income. Employment characteristics and the country of origin play an important role in explaining … the dynamics. Microsimulations of synthetic cohorts reveal that many migrants experience unemployment spells, but ten … only increase the unemployment among migrants but also departure from the country. Scenarios also indicate that an increase …
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market outcomes do not benefit significantly from naturalization. Naturalization reduces the risks of unemployment and …
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the estimates of the impact of labour demand shocks on participation. For men, unemployment increased in response to …
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transitions between the states of nonparticipation, unemployed search, and employment. Motivated by a model of household search … nonparticipation (both out of unemployed search and employment) are positively affected by the husband's income (while no effect is … found for transitions out of nonparticipation). Men seem to move from employment into unemployed search easier the higher is …
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2008-2009 crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of this type of policy and investigates its impact on unemployment … and employment. There is some evidence that short-time compensation programs stabilize permanent employment and reduce … unemployment during downturns. All in all, it seems that short-time work programs used in the recent downturn had significant …
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unemployment at business cycle frequencies by using administrative data on registered unemployment and labor force surveys. We … first investigate the fluctuations in steady state unemployment, and then in current unemployment in order to take into … account the unemployment deviations from equilibrium. Our results show the dominant role of the job finding rate in accounting …
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worsening of unemployment conditions (discouraged worker effect). We find that married women whose husbands are unemployed or … likely to increase their labor force participation. However, a worsening of overall unemployment conditions appears to have a … discouraging effect on wives' labor supply response, wives tend to decrease their labor participation when unemployment rate in …
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This paper analyses the effect of unemployment insurance generosity and active labour market policy on reemployment … to identify policy effects at the micro and macro level. Empirical evidence suggests that unemployment benefit receipt is … associated with longer reemployment duration at the individual level. Furthermore, countries with more generous unemployment …
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Ethnic minorities have lower wages compared to the ethnic majority in most EU-countries. However, to what extent these wage gaps are the result of prejudice toward ethnic minority workers is virtually unknown. This study sets out to examine what role prejudice play in the creation of the ethnic...
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