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Women move differently: Job separations and gender
Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus - 2010
Using a large German linked employer-employee data set and methods of competing risks analysis, this paper investigates gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In line with descriptive evidence, we find lower job-to-job and higher job-to-nonemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274659
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Explaining Gender Differences in Unemployment with Micro Data on Flows in Post-Communist Economies
Stefanová Lauerová, Jana; Terrell, Katherine - 2002
Post-communist labor markets provide an interesting laboratory since unemployment rates grew from zero to double digits … determinants of the gender unemployment gap in the Czech Republic using a method that decomposes unemployment rates into transition … (demographic, regional, cyclical) other than gender and marital status affect unemployment. We find that women?s lower probability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262624
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A caseworker like me: does the similarity between unemployed and caseworker increase job placements?
Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - 2008
This paper examines whether the chances of job placements improve if unemployed persons are counselled by caseworkers who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and nationality. Based on an unusually informative dataset, which links Swiss unemployed to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268853
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Women Move Differently: Job Separations and Gender
Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Using a large German linked employer-employee data set and methods of competing risks analysis, this paper investigates gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In line with descriptive evidence, we find lower job-to-job and higher job-to-nonemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611318
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What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads?
Kuhn, Peter J.; Shen, Kailing - 2021
When employers' explicit gender requests were unexpectedly removed from a Chinese job board overnight, pools of successful applicants became more integrated: women's (men's) share of call-backs to jobs that had requested men (women) rose by 63 (146) percent. The removal 'worked' in this sense...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658197
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Economic Conditions and Child Abuse
Lindo, Jason M.; Schaller, Jessamyn; Hansen, Benjamin - 2013
Although a huge literature spanning several disciplines documents an association between poverty and child abuse, researchers have not found persuasive evidence that economic downturns increase abuse, despite their impacts on family income. In this paper, we address this seeming contradiction....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319478
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Hazard analysis of unemployment duration by gender in a developing country: The case of Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Taşçi, H. Mehmet - 2010
There is little evidence on unemployment duration and its determinants in developing countries. This study is on the … duration aspect of unemployment in a developing country, Turkey. We analyze the determinants of the probability of leaving … unemployment for employment or the hazard rate. The effects of the personal and household characteristics and the local labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269772
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Determinants of Unemployment Duration for Men and Women in Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Taşçi, H. Mehmet - 2004
There are few studies on unemployment duration in developing countries. This is the first study on duration aspect of … unemployment in Turkey. We use the results of the Household Labor Force Surveys of 2000 and 2001 to construct a cross-section of … durations of unemployment spells. We analyze the determinants of probability of leaving unemployment or the hazard rate. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276811
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A Caseworker Like Me: Does the Similarity between Unemployed and Caseworker Increase Job Placements?
Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper examines whether the chances of job placements improve if unemployed persons are counselled by caseworkers who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and nationality. Based on an unusually informative dataset, which links Swiss unemployed to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822697
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Mandatory Volunteer Work as Fair Reciprocity for Unemployment and Social Benefits?
Veldboer, Lex; Kleinhans, Reinout; van Ham, Maarten - 2015
Modern welfare policies are increasingly based on notions of reciprocity. Citizens on welfare benefits have to do something in return, e.g. volunteer work. Notwithstanding general public support, social philosophers have been critical on 'mandatory' activities in community programmes. So far,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307332