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The effects of the minimum wage on employment in Western economies are relatively uncontroversial. The introduction of a minimum wage in Czechoslovakia at the start of the transition, and its increase one year later, gives the opportunity to evaluate to what extent its effects on employment seem...
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Investigates the effects on quits of the current level of wages and the change in wages in order to test the proposition that the change in wages has a negative impact on quits, even controlling for the current level of wages. Finds that the percentage deviation in a worker′s wage change from...
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Purpose – The aim of this paper is to model the dynamic path of adjustment towards pre-unemployment levels of wellbeing … in a non-linear fashion, with the speed of adjustment being higher for high earners, those with high pre-unemployment … most of the adaptation takes place during the first year of unemployment, with adaptation speeds decreasing with …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the causes of unemployment persistence among the Belgian labour … unemployment spells. Design/methodology/approach – The model used is a dynamic random effects probit model controlling for … unemployment persistence, the remainder is induced by the presence of state dependence. All else being equal, an individual …
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Evaluation Dataset, a recently collected survey of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany. The data include … unemployment entry. Research limitations/implications – The findings offer interesting perspectives, e.g. with regard to the design …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of financial crises on the youth unemployment rate (YUR … unemployment. The inclusion of many control variables – including in particular GDP growth – does not change the sign and …-to-work transition institutions are particularly needed to reduce the risk of persistence and structural (long-term) unemployment, since …
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Purpose – This paper aims to analyze the role of social networks on the job search choices of the unemployed. If social networks convey useful information in the job search process, individuals with larger networks should experience a higher productivity of informal search channels. This in...
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representative sample of entrants into unemployment in Germany. The data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us …
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Purpose – The purpose of the paper was to establish the implications of globalisation for labour markets when efficiency wages create endogenous wage rigidity and to re-examine the credibility of the arguments that call for deregulation, more wage flexibility and less social protection in this...
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self-employment from paid employment, unemployment and inactivity. The question is if individuals who enter self …
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