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Gender and education gaps in employment : new evidence for the EU
Gökten, Meryem; Heimberger, Philipp; Arsenev, Aleksandr; … - 2024
This paper analyses (age-adjusted) employment rates by gender and education. We find that malefemale gender gaps and high-low education gaps in employment vary markedly across European Union (EU) countries and regions, with larger gaps existing in Eastern and Southern Europe than in Nordic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014558979
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The effect of job referrals on labor market outcomes in Brazil
O'Leary, Christopher J.; Cravo, Túlio; Sierra, Ana C.; … - 2019
This paper is the first to use program administrative data from Brazil's National Employment System (SINE) to assess the impact of SINE job interview referrals on labor market outcomes. Data for a five-year period (2012-2016) are used to evaluate the impact of SINE on employment probability,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011992106
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Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle
Koenig, Felix; Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2016
Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment rather than wages, at odds with the quantitative predictions of the canonical search model - even if wages are only occasionally renegotiated. We argue that one source of the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446155
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Youth unemployment in the Federal Republic of Germany : Facts, causes, cures
Cassel, Dieter - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 14 (1979) 1, pp. 37-43
Although the youth unemployment ratio in Germany may appear low compared to other countries, it is regarded a severe economic and social problem. There is no doubt that it is an especially gross form of waste of resources and “disinvestment” of human capital. In the long run no country can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011554299
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Happiness functions with preference interdependence and heterogeneity : the case of altruism within the family
Bruhin, Adrian (contributor); Winkelmann, Rainer (contributor) - 2007
adult children's subjective well-being in a data set extracted from the German Socio-Economic Panel. In order to segregate …. We control for various sources of potential bias by taking advantage of the data's panel structure. To validate our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003459479
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Subjective well-being and the family : results from an ordered probit model with multiple random effects
Winkelmann, Rainer (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
allows to identify the intrafamily correlation in well-being. The parameters of the model can be estimated with panel data … using Maximum Marginal Likelihood. The approach is illustrated in an application using panel data for the period 1984 …-1997 from the German Socio-Economic Panel in which both inter-generational and intra-marriage correlations in well-being are …
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Are active labour market policies effective in activating and integrating low-skilled individuals? : an international comparison
Escudero, Verónica - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011302494
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The erosion of the German middle class
Bosch, Gerhard; Kalina, Thorsten - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 51 (2016) 2, pp. 67-72
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449411
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La réforme du marché du travail en Allemagne : les enseignements d'une maquette
Capet, Stéphane (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002420873
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Youth unemployment
In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 48 (2013) 4, pp. 196-235
Youth unemployment has been on the rise since the beginning of the crisis in 2008. Even more troublesome is the dramatic rise in the number of youth not in employment, education or training, which has led to widespread concerns about the impact on social cohesion and fears of a “lost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009775805