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This study examines the extent, duration and timing of employment breaks amongst a large representative sample of …, unique in Israel, which was derived from a linkage of 1995 Population Census data with monthly employment records of the … to the considerable amount of intermittent employment found amongst Israeli male workers. Also, women's labor market …
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In 1996 Austria introduced a tax for the layoff of older workers, which was tightened in 2000. The regulation requires employers to pay a tax of up to 170 percent of the gross monthly income when they give notice to employees aged 50 or more. We use data from Austrian social security records to...
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's tax-based social transfers have not harmed either employment or GDP. Even unemployment benefits do not have robustly … employment effects, but through the net human-capital cost of protecting senior male workers at the expense of women and youth …
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shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison …
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that unemployment, being a homemaker, self-employed, living single, and having a child living close, are associated with an …
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children appear to compare their actual economic status with that of their parents, deriving large satisfaction gains from an …This paper investigates the relationship between income satisfaction of adult children and their relative economic … income rank that is higher than that of their parents. The effect is asymmetric with regard to parents, as these seem not to …
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We present a field study of social learning. The setting is a pair of adjacent fast food restaurants serving very similar cuisine whose main clientele are the students at a nearby major university. We observed whether an uninformed customer's choice of restaurant depends on the relative queue...
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Studies in the US have shown that black immigrants have remained at the bottom of the wage ladder and that other groups of immigrants have overtaken them over time. The goal of this research is to determine whether a specific group of immigrants can displace a group at the bottom of the ladder....
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If producers have more information than consumers about goods' attributes, then they may use non-price (rather than price) adjustment mechanisms and, consequently, the market may reach a new equilibrium even if prices remain sticky. We study a situation where producers adjust the quantity (per...
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