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Unemployment insurance and entrepreneurship
Røed, Knut; Baumgarten Skogstrøm, Jens Fredrik - 2013
programs (ALMP) affect the transition rates from unemployment to regular employment and entrepreneurship. We find that the … entrepreneurship hazard is highly responsive with respect to UI incentives, and that the probability of starting up a new business … employment hazard, it has no effect on entrepreneurship. We speculate that this reflects the programs' one-sided focus on job …
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Work, jobs and well-being across the millennium
Clark, Andrew E. - 2009
This paper uses repeated cross-section data ISSP data from 1989, 1997 and 2005 to consider movements in job quality. It is first underlined that not having a job when you want one is a major source of low well-being. Second, job values have remained fairly stable over time, although workers seem...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269197
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The Perceived Well-Being and Health Costs of Exiting Self-Employment
Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris; Popova, Olga - 2020
this traumatic event. Our findings imply that policies encouraging entrepreneurship should also carefully consider the …
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Employment Status, Endogenous Regional Mobility, and Spatial Dependencies in Labor Markets
Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2002
This paper investigates spatial correlation in the matching process of vacant jobs and job seekers. The importance of the interactions of regional labor markets in West Germany is highlighted in several dimensions. We test for spatial autocorrelation in regional hires, unemployment and vacancy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262709
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Employment Status, Endogenous Regional Mobility, and Spatial Dependencies in Labor Markets
Sunde, Uwe; Fahr, René - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This paper investigates spatial correlation in the matching process of vacant jobs and job seekers. The importance of the interactions of regional labor markets in West Germany is highlighted in several dimensions. We test for spatial autocorrelation in regional hires, unemployment and vacancy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763605
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The Incidence and Persistence of Cyclical Job Loss in New Zealand
Maré, David C.; Fabling, Richard - 2013
In New Zealand, the impact of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) was milder than in most other developed countries, with employment declining by 2.5 percent between 2008q4 and 2009q4. Job and worker turnover rates both declined, signalling a reduction in labour market liquidity and difficulties...
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Does the Unemployment Invariance Hypothesis Hold for Canada?
Tansel, Aysit; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Aksoy, Emre - 2016
This article explores the long-run relationship between unemployment rate and labor force participation rate in Canada. The cointegration analysis vindicates the existence of a long-run relationship between these two variables. This finding leads us to doubt the pertinence of the unemployment...
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The Ins and Outs of Involuntary Part-Time Employment
Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Lalé, Etienne - 2018
We develop an adjustment procedure to construct U.S. monthly time series of involuntary part-time employment stocks and flows from 1976 until today. Armed with these new data, we provide a comprehensive account of the dynamics of involuntary part-time work. Transitions from full-time to...
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Disaggregate Matching Functions
Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001
This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is unusual due to the scarcity of appropriate data....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262541
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A Test of the ?Krugman Hypothesis? for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003
Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment (with rather stable wage inequality) have led to a popular view in the economics profession that these two phenomena are related to negative relative demand shocks against the...
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