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Work, jobs and well-being across the millennium
Clark, Andrew E. - 2009
than it was in 1989. Last, the rate of self-employment has been falling gently in ISSP data; even so three to four times as … satisfied than are employees, one consistent interpretation of the above is that the barriers to self-employment have grown in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269197
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Selection Policy and the Labour Market Outcomes of New Immigrants
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2004
selection policy can facilitate employment outcomes for new arrivals over the medium run. The results indicate that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262126
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How do labor markets affect crime? New evidence on an old puzzle
Mustard, David B. - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269828
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The insider-outsider theory: a survey
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
costs influence insider wages and outsiders? opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also … address the more complex, and open, question of how employment and unemployment move through time, in response to labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292491
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Treatment versus Regime Effects of Carrots and Sticks
Arni, Patrick; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lalive, Rafael - 2015
Public Employment Service (PES) agencies and caseworkers (CW) often have substantial leeway in the design and …, employment, and post-unemployment earnings using register data that contain PES and case-worker identifiers for about 130,000 job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401714
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Labour Market Dynamics in Spanish Regions: Evaluating Asymmetries in Troublesome Times
Sala, Hector; Trivín, Pedro - 2013
reacts to regional employment shocks in a variety of cases. Shock responses are channelled via changes in unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329166
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Long-Term Responses to Large Minimum Wage Shocks: Sub-Minimum and Super-Minimum Workers in Slovenia
Laporsek, Suzana; Orazem, Peter F.; Vodopivec, Matija; … - 2019
sub-minimum workers as a group lost average earnings, hours and employment compared to other workers. The adverse … employment effect occurred both through a higher probability of transition from employment to non-employment and through a … decreased probability of transition from non-employment to employment. …
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Long-Run Effects of Dynamically Assigned Treatments: A New Methodology and an Evaluation of Training Effects on Earnings
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Vikström, Johan - 2019
earnings in subsequent employment. Any evaluation needs to take into account that some of those who are not trained at a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059200
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Downward Real Wage Rigidity and Equal Treatment Wage Contracts: Theory and Evidence
Snell, Andy; Stüber, Heiko; Thomas, Jonathan P. - 2018
Recent dynamic contracting models of downward real wage rigidity with "equal treatment" – newly hired workers cannot price themselves into jobs by undercutting incumbents – imply that real wages are relatively rigid in "bad" times but upwardly flexible during "good" times. We use an...
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Estimating the Effect of an Increase in the Minimum Wage on Hours Worked and Employment in Ireland
McGuinness, Seamus; Redmond, Paul - 2018
per week. We found a corresponding increase in part-time employment of 2 percentage points for all minimum wage workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931597