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If two partners smoke, their quit behavior may be related through correlation in unobserved individual characteristics and common external shocks. However, there may also be a causal effect whereby the quit behavior of one partner is affected by the quit decision of the other partner. We use...
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there is a causal effect of partnership on subjective well-being. Our data allow us to distinguish between marriage and … orientation. The well-being gains of marriage are larger than those of cohabitation. Investigating partnership formation and … disruption, we discover that the well-being effects are symmetric. Finally, we find that marriage improves well-being for both …
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formation of interethnic marriages resemble a natural experiment. The exogenous variation in marriage formation allows us to …
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formation of interethnic marriages resemble a natural experiment. The exogenous variation in marriage formation allows us to …
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Taking into account inter-dependence within the family, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and …
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This paper uses an administrative dataset to analyze to what extent active labor market policies in the Slovak Republic have been beneficial for unemployed workers. The focus is on two types of temporary subsidized jobs and on training. Short-term subsidized jobs seem to be the most efficient...
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fired. Therefore a country with a high or an increasing unemployment rate has a low (reported) workplace accident rate. The … inversely related to both the level of unemployment and the change in unemployment. Furthermore, fatal accident rated do not …
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job. This paper uses an administrative dataset from the Slovak Republic on durations of individual unemployment spells …
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The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries … experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also 'successful' countries in which … the unemployment rate decreased a lot. A common feature of the successful countries is that they implemented a …
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In the past decades several features of U.S. unemployment dynamics have been investigated empirically. The original … focus of research was on the duration of unemployment. In later studies the cyclicality of incidence and duration …, compositional effects and duration dependence of the exit rate out of unemployment have been investigated. Unlike the partial …
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