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Assisting the Long-Term Unemployed: Results from a Randomized Trial

Breunig, Robert; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Dunlop, Yvonne; … - 2002

Welfare reform in Australia centres on the concept of both economic and social participation. The policy concern is …

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The global economic crisis: Long-term unemployment in the OECD

Junankar, P. N. Raja - 2011

This paper analyses the impact of the global economic crisis on unemployment and long term unemployment in the OECD. It uses simple econometric models using panel data (quarterly) and time series data. In general, we find that long term unemployment increases with the unemployment rate, there is...

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The targeted negative income tax (TNIT) in Germany: evidence from a quasi experiment

Spermann, Alexander; Strotmann, Harald - 2006

We report empirical evidence from the first field experiments to be conducted in Germany with program and control groups between 1999 and 2002. The evaluated program called Targeted Negative Income Tax (TNIT) is a time-restricted employee subsidy for means-tested welfare recipients. We focus on...

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Biased probability judgment: evidence of incidence and relationship to economic outcomes from a representative sample

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Marklein, Felix - 2009

Many economic decisions involve a substantial amount of uncertainty, and therefore crucially depend on how individuals process probabilistic information. In this paper, we investigate the capability for probability judgment in a representative sample of the German population. Our results show...

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Gender differences in rates of job dismissal: Why are men more likely to lose their jobs?

Wilkins, Roger; Wooden, Mark - 2011

of detailed investigation. In this paper, household panel survey data from Australia are used that also find higher …

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Job insecurity and future labour market outcomes

McGuinness, Seamus; Wooden, Mark; Hahn, Markus - 2012

This paper uses longitudinal survey data to test the degree to which measures of job insecurity are correlated with changes in labour market status. Three major findings are reported. First, the perceived probability of job loss is only weakly related to both exogenous job separations and...

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Immigrant wage and employment assimilation: A comparison of methods

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hanel, Barbara; McVicar, Duncan - 2012

We compare alternative methods for estimating immigrant wage and employment assimilation using unique panel data over 2001-2009 for a large, nationally-representative sample of immigrants. Previous assimilation estimates have been mainly based on cross-sectional data and have therefore suffered...

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Immigrants' Language Skills: The Australian Experience in a Longitudinal Survey

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

Australia, is used to test the model. This survey had three waves, at about 6 months, 18 months and 3? years after immigration …

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Immigrants' Language Skills and Visa Category

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

for Australia. It focuses on both visa category and variables derived from an economic model of the determinants of …

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The Determinants of the Geographic Concentration among Immigrants: Application to Australia

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

concentrated. Testing the model for Australia shows that the extent of geographic concentration of immigrant groups is negatively … related to age at migration, duration of residence in Australia and the proportion of the birthplace group that is fluent in … the country of origin and the place of residence in Australia. …

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