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The Determinants of Part-Time Work in EU Countries : Empirical Investigations with Macro-Panel Data
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Mourre, Gilles; Ward, Melanie E. - 2004
. Institutions and other structural factors are also found to be significant and important determinants of the rate of part …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277065
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The Determinants of Part-Time Work in EU Countries: Empirical Investigations with Macro-Panel Data
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Mourre, Gilles; Ward, Melanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
. Institutions and other structural factors are also found to be significant and important determinants of the rate of part …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822753
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Trust in public institutions over the business cycle
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2011
We document that trust in public institutions and particularly trust in banks, business and government has declined … institutions. Cross-country comparisons reveal a clear legacy of the Great Recession, and those countries whose unemployment grew … the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278438
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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Modin, Bitte - 2013
We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
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Labor Market Prospects, Search Intensity and the Transition from College to Work
van Vuuren, Aico; van der Klaauw, Bas; Berkhout, Peter - 2004
In this paper we develop a structural model for job search behavior of students entering the labor market. The model includes endogenous search effort and on-the-job search. Since students usually do not start a regular job before graduation but start job search earlier, our model is non...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261923
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Combining Micro and Macro Unemployment Duration Data
van den Berg, Gerard J.; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2000
We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the total inflow into unemployment. We estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262334
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When and how to create a job: the survival of new jobs in Austrian firms
Böheim, René; Stiglbauer, Alfred M.; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2005
While the volatility of job creations has been studied extensively, the survival chances of new jobs are less researched. The question when and how to expand a firm is of importance, both from the firms and from a macro perspective. Adjustment cost theories and arguments about option values of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267397
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Job flow dynamics and firing restrictions: evidence from Europe
Messina, Julián; Vallanti, Giovanna - 2006
We exploit homogeneous firm level data of manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors to study the impact of firing restrictions on job flow dynamics across 14 European countries. We find that more stringent firing laws dampen the response of job destruction to the cycle, thus making job...
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Piece work pay and hourly pay over the cycle
Hart, Robert A. - 2006
This paper investigates the relative cyclical behavior of the pay of piece workers and hourly paid workers. It uses a unique data set of blue-collar workers in British engineering between 1926 and 1966. The statistics are obtained from the payrolls of firms belonging to the Engineering Employers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267830
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Re-employment probabilities over the business cycle
Imbens, Guido W.; Lynch, Lisa M. - 2006
Using a Cox proportional hazard model that allows for a flexible time dependence in order to incorporate business cycle effects, we analyze the determinants of reemployment probabilities of young workers in the U.S. from 1978-1989. We find considerable changes in the chances of young workers...
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