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Unhappiness and Job Finding
Gielen, Anne C.; Ours, Jan C. van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
It is puzzling that people feel quite unhappy when they become unemployed, while at thesame time active labor market policies are needed to bring unemployed back to work morequickly. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigate whether there isindeed such a puzzle. First, we...
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Why Are So Many Disabled Individuals Not Workingin Spain? A Job Search Approach
Silva, José I.; Vall-Castello, Judit - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
age at which the individualstarts receiving disability benefits, and the increase in the local unemployment rate …
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Do Employers Use Unemployment as aSorting Criterion When Hiring?Evidence from a Field Experiment
Eriksson, Stefan; Rooth, Dan-Olof - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
contemporary unemployment affect a young worker’s probability ofbeing invited to a job interview. In contrast to studies using … forunobserved heterogeneity. We find no evidence that recruiting employers use informationabout past unemployment to sort workers … pastunemployment as a sorting criterion suggests that the scarring effects of unemployment maynot be as severe as has been indicated by …
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The Effect of Job Displacement on the Transitionsto Employment and Early Retirement for OlderWorkers in Four European Countries
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Despite the increased frequency of job loss for older workers in Europe, little is known on itseffect on the work-retirement decision. Employing individual data from the EuropeanCommunity Household Panel for Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K., a multivariatecompeting-risks hazard model is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861656
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Unemployment Duration and Disability:Evidence from Portugal
Sciulli, Dario; Menezes, António Gomes de; Vieira, … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
In this paper we use Portuguese data on individual (multiple) unemployment spells and applysemi-parametric duration … persons with muscular, skeletal, geriatricand sensorial problems experience the longest unemployment spells. Organic (blind …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861869
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How Do Different Entitlements to UnemploymentBenefits Affect the Transitions from Unemploymentinto Employment?
Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
In Portugal duration of benefits is exclusively age determined while replacement rates are toall intents and purposes uniform. We exploit differences in potential maximum duration ofbenefits for nearly matched pairs of individuals who differ in age by one year and in potentialmaximum duration of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862081
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Social and Occupational Security andLabour Market Flexibility in Sweden:The Case of Unemployment Compensation
Lindquist, Gabriella Sjögren; Wadensjö, Eskil - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
The Swedish labour market and social policy is aimed at facilitating flexibility in the labourmarket. The active labour market policy and the design of the social security pension systemare two frequently mentioned examples of that policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862558
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Modelling the Time onUnemployment Insurance Benefits
Bijwaard, Govert E. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
A duration model based on the time on Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits instead of amodel based on the time till re …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862577
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The Effect of Location on Finding a Jobin the Greater Paris Area
Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry; Selod, Harris - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
There are large spatial disparities in unemployment durations across the 1,300 municipalitiesin the Ile … municipality on an exhaustive datasetof all unemployment spells starting in the first semester of 1996... …
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Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should betargeted. We contrast measures involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities andtargeting the unemployed under the criteria of "approximate welfare efficiency" (AWE)...
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