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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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We use the panel data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and of the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) to investigate whether risk attitudes have primary (exogenous) determinants that are valid in different stages of economic development and in a different structural context,...
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respect to unemployment benefits is remarkably lower for risk-averse job seekers than for risk-loving job seekers. The results …
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We analyse benefit-entitlement effects and the likely impact of the recent reform of the unemployment compensation … system on the duration of unemployment in Germany on the basis of a flexible discrete-time hazard rate model estimated on pre … are eligible to means-tested unemployment assistance after the exhaustion of unemployment benefit, but not for those …
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. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again consistent with the basic search model …
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Using German panel data, we assess the causal effect of job loss, and thus of an extensive income shock, on risk attitude. In line with predictions of expected utility reasoning about absolute risk aversion, losing one's job reduces the willingness to take risks. This effect strengthens in...
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In this paper the relationship between parental unemployment at time of children's labor market entrance on the quality … negative correlation between fathers' unemployment at the time of children's labor market entrance and their children's first … wage, while no significant relation can be found for unemployment or labor market inactivity of mothers. …
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We study the usually assumed trade-off between income and leisure in labor supply decisions using comprehensive German panel data. We compare non-employed individuals after plant closures with employed people regarding both income and time use as well as their subjective perceptions of these two...
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. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again consistent with the basic search model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017390
We analyse benefit-entitlement effects and the likely impact of the recent reform of the unemployment compensation … system on the duration of unemployment in Germany on the basis of a flexible discrete-time hazard rate model estimated on pre … are eligible to means-tested unemployment assistance after the exhaustion of unemployment benefit, but not for those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017406