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Can Fixed-Term Contracts Put Low Skilled Youth on a Better Career Path? Evidence from Spain

Garacia-Perez, J. Ignacio - 2016

By reducing the commitment made by employers, fixed-term contracts can help low-skilled youth find a first job. However, the long-term impact of fixed-term contracts on these workers' careers may be negative. Using Spanish social security data, we analyze the impact of a large liberalization in...

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Market Wages and Youth Crime

Grogger, Jeffrey - 2021

Youth crime is widespread. To study the effect of market wages on youth crime, I analyze a time-allocation model in which consumers face parametric wages and diminishing marginal returns to crime. Under these assumptions, an individual who works will commit crime if the returns to the first hour...

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Young and Out in Germany : On the Youths' Chances of Labor Market Entrance in Germany

Franz, Wolfgang; Inkmann, Joachim; Pohlmeier, Winfried; … - 2021

This paper deals with the labor market entrance of young people in the Federal Republic" of Germany. The main focus is on failures during this stage. First, an overview of the youth" labor market in Germany is given. Then, the transition from vocational training to work is" analyzed: The...

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The Duration of Youth Unemployment in West Germany : Some Theoretical Considerations

Franz, Wolfgang - 2021

This paper presents a theoretical model dealing with the duration of youth unemployment in West Germany. Duration can be expressed in terms of the underlying hazard function. After a brief discussion of a reasonable shape of the hazard function a distinction is made with respect to the...

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The Effects of Youth Employment : Evidence from New York City Summer Youth Employment Program Lotteries

Gelber, Alexander M. - 2015

Programs to encourage labor market activity among youth, including public employment programs and wage subsidies like the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, can be supported by three broad rationales. They may: (1) provide contemporaneous income support to participants; (2) encourage work experience...

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The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Incarceration

Dobbie, Will - 2018

We estimate the causal effect of parental incarceration on children's medium-run outcomes using administrative data from Sweden. Our empirical strategy exploits exogenous variation in parental incarceration from the random assignment of criminal defendants to judges with different incarceration...

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What Should I Be When I Grow Up? Occupations and Unemployment Over the Life Cycle

Gervais, Martin - 2014

Why is unemployment higher for younger individuals? We address this question in a frictional model of the labor market that features learning about occupational fit. In order to learn the occupation in which they are most productive, workers sample occupations over their careers. Because young...

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Work Expectations, Realizations, and Depression in Older Workers

Falba, Tracy A. - 2008

We explore the impact on depressive symptoms of deviation in actual labor force behavior at age 62 from earlier expectations. Our sample of 4,241 observations is drawn from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We examine workers who were less than 62 years of age at the 1992 HRS baseline, and...

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Happiness Adaptation to Income Beyond "Basic Needs"

Di Tella, Rafael; MacCulloch, Robert - 2021

We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using … greater happiness. The reason appears to be adaptation. However even for the rich half of European nations such habituation … may take over 5 years so the happiness gains that they experience, whilst not permanent, can still be relatively long …

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Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility

Blanchflower, David G. - 2014

If human beings care about their relative weight, a form of imitative obesity can emerge (in which people subconsciously keep up with the weight of the Joneses). Using Eurobarometer data on 29 countries, this paper provides cross-sectional evidence that overweight perceptions and dieting are...

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