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Unemployment and happiness : successful policies for helping the unemployed need to confront the adverse effects of unemployment on feelings of life satisfaction
Winkelmann, Rainer - 2014
Many studies document a large negative effect of unemployment on happiness. Recent research has looked into factors related to impacts on happiness, such as adaptation, social work norms, social capital, religious beliefs, and psychological resources. Getting unemployed people back to work can...
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Do family and kinship networks support entrepreneurs? : family and kinship ties offer multiple benefits to developing country entrepreneurs but can also have adverse effects
Nordman, Christophe J. - 2016
Family and kinship networks are important in helping people get jobs and start companies, as statistics for developing countries show. Promising new research has begun to assess the positive and negative effects of these family and kinship ties on entrepreneurial success. To what extent, and...
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Migration and female genital mutilation : can migrants help change the social norm?
Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine - 2016
More than 100 million women and girls in the world have had their genitals cut for cultural, religious, or other non-medical reasons. Even though international organizations condemn female genital mutilation (FGM), or cutting, as a violation of human rights, and most nations have banned it, it...
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Does return migration influence fertility at home? : migrants encounter different fertility norms while abroad, which they can bring back upon returning home
Bertoli, Simone - 2015
Demographic factors in migrant-sending countries can influence international migration flows. But when migrants move across borders, they can also influence the pace of demographic transition in their countries of origin. This is because migrants, who predominantly move on a temporary basis,...
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Unemployment benefits and job match quality : do unemployment benefits help those seeking work to obtain better jobs?
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2014
the quality of the work found by the unemployed. This quality rise, in terms of both wages and duration, can be achieved …
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Do immigrant workers depress the wages of native workers? : short-term wage effects of immigrants are close to zero : and in the long term immigrants can boost productivity and wag...
Peri, Giovanni - 2014
Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers … countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and only modest effects on wage differentials between more and less … educated immigrant and native workers. Native workers' wages have been insulated by differences in skills, adjustments in local …
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The effect of overtime regulations on employment : there is no evidence that being strict with overtime hours and pay boosts employment - it could even lower it
Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2014
Regulation of standard workweek hours and overtime hours and pay can protect workers who might otherwise be required to work more than they would like to at the going rate. By discouraging the use of overtime, such regulation can increase the standard hourly wage of some workers and encourage...
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Impact of privatization on employment and earnings : workers and policymakers may fear that privatization leads to job losses and wage cuts, but what's the empirical evidence?
Earle, John S. - 2014
wages. But this ignores the possibility that new owners will expand the firm's scale, with potentially positive effects on … employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small …
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Who benefits from firm-sponsored training? : firm-sponsored training benefits both workers and firms through higher wages, increased productivity and innovation
Dostie, Benoît - 2015
Workers participating in firm-sponsored training receive higher wages as a result. But given that firms pay the …
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Consequences of the obesity epidemic for immigrants : when migrants move to countries with high obesity rates, does assimilation lead to labor market penalties and higher health ca...
Argys, Laura M. - 2015
Upon arrival in a host country, immigrants often have lower obesity rates (as measured for instance by BMI-body mass index) than their native counterparts do, but these rates converge over time. In light of the worldwide obesity epidemic and the flow of immigrants into host countries with higher...
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