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I use the European Community Household Panel to ask whether unemployment affects the relationship between education and … from the experience of unemployment. This result partially compensates the fact that more education reduces the incidence … of unemployment: unemployment is less likely among the better educated, but its occurrence has more sizeable effects on …
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We analyse the effects of demographic and education changes on unemployment rates in Europe. Using a panel of European … individuals, in general, experience lower unemployment rates, changes in the population age structure appear to be positively … related to young workers' unemployment rates while they have no effect on adults. Conversely changes in the skill structure …
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compared to other non-western immigrants but they still suffer from high unemployment. The study also documents that the …
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This study investigates the causal effects of education on individuals' transitions between employment and unemployment … 16 years of schooling. Evidence on the impact of formal schooling on unemployment incidence is mixed. …
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increase the probability of re-employment following unemployment. …
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Survey data from urban China in 2002 show levels of life satisfaction to be low, but not exceptionally so, by … international comparison. Many of the determinants of life satisfaction in urban China appear comparable to those for people in … other countries. These include, inter alia, unemployment, income, marriage, sex, health and age. Communist Party membership …
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relationship with graduates' employability. We find that study programs with larger numeri clausi are associated with a higher …. Namely, study programs requiring the Math exam appear to be linked with lower unemployment propensity. Cardoso et al. (2008 … students' choices may be based on insufficient information on returns to higher education investment. That information failure …
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This paper provides a model of social hysteresis whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead them to change their work ethic. In switching from a pro-work to an anti-work identity, their incentives to seek and retain work fall and consequently their employment chances fall....
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access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A key concern, however, is how these … students will perform. This paper examines the relationship between high school quality and student success at college. Using … schools in the state that send students to the university, but also provides an admission criteria based on a sole observable …
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students in Chile. To address this gap, an anonymous survey was administered to students enrolled in General Education courses … at a major public university in Santiago (n=455 female students). Rape, attempted rape, and other types of sexual … factors for sexual violence in Chilean college students, and to begin to develop and evaluate theory-based programs to prevent …
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