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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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Discouraged Immigrants and the Missing Pop in EPOP
Norlander, Peter; Sorensen, Todd A. - 2016
We address the impact of declining migration on the measurement of labor market health. We first document an historically significant decline in the growth rate of the U.S. foreign born population since 2000. A decomposition shows that nearly two-thirds of the decline can be attributed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451242
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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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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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Work, Jobs and Well-Being across the Millennium
Clark, Andrew E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10005015469
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Self-Employment and Migration
Giambra, Samuele; McKenzie, David - 2019
There is a widespread policy view that a lack of job opportunities at home is a key reason for migration, accompanied by suggestions of the need to spend more on creating these opportunities so as to reduce migration. Self-employment is widespread in poor countries, and faced with a lack of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141260
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Wage Employment, Unemployment and Self-Employment across Countries
Poschke, Markus - 2019
Poor countries have low rates of wage employment and high rates of self-employment. This paper shows that they also have high rates of unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment is particularly high where the unemployment-wage employment ratio is high. I interpret high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059097
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Entrepreneurship, economic conditions, and the Great Recession
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2011
opportunities in the wage/salary sector leaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdata … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed light on this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market … conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278411
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Creative unemployment
Røed, Knut; Skogstrøm, Jens Fredrik - 2010
We examine the impact of job loss on entrepreneurship behavior in Norway. Our identification strategy relies on the use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278634
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207868