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changes is, nonetheless, strongly debated. We contribute to this discussion by analyzing the effect of unemployment on LOC … unemployment. Overall, we find a significant shift in stated LOC due to unemployment. Because the effect is observable during … unemployment only and not heterogeneous with respect to individual characteristics or unemployment duration, we conclude that only …
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The 1990s and 2000s were a gloomy period for Germany's working class, hit by mass unemployment, welfare retrenchment … gap did not follow a clear time trend, but remained basically constant. In Germany, differences in unemployment risks and …
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This paper studies the intergenerational effects of parental unemployment on students' transitions after completing … upper secondary education. Besides estimating the average treatment effect of parental unemployment on transition outcomes … adverse impact of parental unemployment on children's educational transitions. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio …
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This paper examines how parental unemployment affects the transition to postsecondary education in different … five longitudinal surveys to analyze effects of parental unemployment on entry to postsecondary education in 21 countries …. The results of multilevel regression analysis show that contexts providing better insurance against unemployment in terms …
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We use the German Socio-Economic Panel to show that introducing a high-impact statutory minimum wage causes an increase in reservation wages of approximately 4 percent at the low end of the distribution. The shifts in reservation wages and observed wages due to the minimum wage reform are...
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market outcomes do not benefit significantly from naturalization. Naturalization reduces the risks of unemployment and …
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This paper relates an individual’s social capital and the length of unemployment spells of the very same individual … of unemployment. Our results show that an individual’s social capital positively affects an agent’s probability to take … up employment in the next time period. This implies social capital shortens the length of an unemployment spell …
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This paper estimates the effect of involuntary job loss on smoking behavior and body weight using German Socio-Economic Panel Study data. Baseline nonsmokers are more likely to start smoking due to job loss, while smokers do not intensify their smoking. Job loss increases body weight slightly,...
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Studies on health effects of unemployment usually neglect spillover effects on spouses. This study specifically … investigates the effect of an individual’s unemployment on the mental health of their spouse. In order to allow for causal … interpretation of the estimates, it focuses on an exogenous entry into unemployment (i.e. plant closure), and combines difference …
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unhappy and the need for activation policies. -- Happiness ; unemployment duration …
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