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For nearly 50 years academics have been studying how labor markets affect crime. The initial interesting and important theoretical and empirical work generated substantial interest in studying crime among economists, in particular, and scholars in the social sciences more broadly. This...
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flexible multi-state Mixed Proportional Hazard specifications for transition rates between employment, unemployment, and …' transition rates from unemployment to employment increase. Longer periods of non-employment generally decrease future transition … welfare/non-participation. Our main finding is that after longer periods of employment with high income, individuals …
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Using the large-scale German Socio-Economic Panel, this note reports direct empirical evidence for significant … correlations between risk aversion and labour market outcomes (full-time employment, temporary agency work, fixed-term contracts …, employer change, quits, training, wages, and job satisfaction). …
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bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply … compared to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment …We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are …
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The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004 … the German labor market since EU enlargement. Unlike other EU countries, Germany has not immediately opened up its labor … immigrants from outside of Europe for low-skilled jobs instead of competing with German natives. While Germany needs high …
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This paper examines the effects of alcohol consumption on employment and wages for males and females in Russia. Both … impact on employment and wages. Further, there is some evidence in favor of an inverse U-shaped relationship between alcohol … association diminishes for the employment models for males and females. For the wage models, controlling for unobserved …
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's theoretical framework: (i) wages are higher in states with more generous unemployment benefits, (ii) the perceived probability of … pay and the local unemployment rate - in modern U.S. data. Consistent with recent evidence from more than 40 other … job-finding is lower in states with higher unemployment, and (iii) employees are less happy in states that have higher …
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dispersion of wages is not a major contributor to differences in employment rates between Germany and the US. The jobs problem in … in skill premium but changes in relatives wages are related to changes in relative employment. 5. The differing …Summary The most popular explanation for greater job creation in the US than in Germany is that greater dispersion of …
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