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Bullying at School and Labour Market Outcomes
Drydakis, Nick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This study examines the long-term correlates of bullying in school with aspects of functioning in adult employment outcomes. Bullying is considered and evaluated as a proxy for unmeasured productivity, and a framework is provided that outlines why bullying might affect employment outcomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960118
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Man-cessions, Fiscal Policy, and the Gender Composition of Employment
Bredemeier, Christian; Juessen, Falko; Winkler, Roland - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
In recessions, predominantly men lose their jobs, which has given rise to the term "man-cessions". We analyze whether fiscal expansions bring men back into jobs. To do so, we estimate vector-autoregressive models and identify the effects of fiscal shocks and non-fiscal shocks on the gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011214037
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Main features of the labour policy in Portugal
Moniz, António B.; Woll, Tobias - Centro de Investigação em Inovação Empresarial e do … - 2007
In this working paper is presented information on the Portuguese labour market developed with the support of the European project WORKS-“Work organisation and restructuring in the knowledge society”. Is still a on the process article and thus commentaries are welcome. The structure is based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005731583
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Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762270
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Main features of the labour policy in Portugal
Moniz, António; Woll, Tobias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this working paper is presented information on the Portuguese labour market developed with the support of the European project WORKS-“Work organisation and restructuring in the knowledge society”. Is still a on the process article and thus commentaries are welcome. The structure is based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790119
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Taxes, Benefits, and Careers: Complete Versus Incomplete Markets
Ljungqvist, Lars; Sargent, Thomas J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
An incomplete markets life-cycle model with indivisible labour makes career lengths and human capital accumulation respond to labour tax rates and government supplied non-employment benefits. We compare aggregate and individual outcomes in this individualistic incomplete markets model with those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656326
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Des hommes malades du chômage ? Genre et (ré-)assignation identitaire au Royaume-Uni
Angeloff, Tania - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011
In the early 2000s, nearly two million men – and less than one million women – were eligible for disability benefits in Britain. Initiated at the beginning of the 1980s, the Incapacity Benefit (IB) social welfare system perceived and treated these recipients as « disabled adults ». This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011073699
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Part-Time Work in EU Countries: Labour Market Mobility, Entry and Exit
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Mourre, Gilles; Ward, Melanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
significantly higher proportion of female workers in Europe prefer inactivity and a significantly lower percentage prefer full …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566628
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CERGE-EI Tackles Transition
Dusek, Libor (contributor); Lizal, Lubomir (contributor) - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and …
This volume is a collection of articles reprinted from top refereed journals and contains the most influential scholarly papers published by CERGE-EI faculty over the past 20 years. An introduction is by Lubomír Lízal, Associate Professor with Tenure at CERGE-EI and member of the Board of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010940911
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Human Capital Dynamics and the U.S. Labor Market
Fang, Lei; Nie, Jun - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta - 2014
The high U.S. unemployment rate after the Great Recession is usually considered to be a result of changes in factors … in the unemployment rate, these factors should have influenced workers' and firms' decisions. Therefore, it is important … factors affect the unemployment rate. To address this issue, we estimate a Mortensen-Pissarides style of labor-market matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010942906