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Poverty Street: The dynamics of neighbourhood declineand renewal
Lupton, Ruth - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003
neighbourhoods have multiple problems - unemployment three times the nationalaverage; Income Support claims twice as high; health and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008766030
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Recent Advances in the Economics of Individual Subjective Well-Being
Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum <Basel> - 2010
Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the socialsciences has provided a major new stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness.Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported subjective wellbeingis often taken as a proxy measure for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008845690
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UNEMPLOYMENT AND LIQUIDITY CONSTRAINTS
Hajivassiliou, Vassilis; Ioannides, Yannis M. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006
ordered probit models with panel data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics.We analyze a household’s propensity to be … liquidity constrained by means of a dynamic binary probitmodel. We analyze qualitative aspects of the conditions of employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008939828
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Do Employment Subsidies Work? Evidence from Regionally Targeted Subsidies in Turkey
Betcherman, Gordon; Daysal, N. Meltem; Pagés, Carmen - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper studies the effects on registered employment, earnings, and number of registered establishments of two … employment subsidy schemes in Turkey. We implement a difference-in-differences methodology to construct appropriate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859643
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Labour Force Surveys Quarterly - April-June 2012
Yiśrā&#039;ēl / Central Bureau of Statistics
Conducted by Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics, the labour force survey is the main source of information regarding the labour force in Israel.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009248764
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Expected Wages and Other LaborMarket Factors Affecting the LaborForce Decisions of Nurses in the Stateof Iowa
Doorenbos, Todd; Imerman, Mark; Orazem, Peter F. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2005
estimate the effects of a number of wage and nonwage factors on nurses’ decisions regarding where and how much to employment to …
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Computer Adoption and Returns in Transition
Kuku, Yemisi; Orazem, Peter F.; Singh, Rajesh Kumar - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2004
Across nine transition economies, it is the young, educated, English-speaking workers with thebest access to local telecommunications infrastructures that work with computers. Theseworkers earn about 25% more than do workers of comparable observable skills who do not usecomputers. Controlling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360910
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Off-farm labor supply responses to permanentand transitory farm income
Kwon, Chul-Woo; Orazem, Peter F.; Otto, Daniel M. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2003
transitory components of farm income. Off-farm labor supply of both spouses declines in response to increases in permanent farm … income. Farm wives also reduce off-farm labor supply in response to positive transitory farm income shocks. Consequently, one … mechanism farm households use to smooth their goods consumption when facing fluctuating farm income is to modify their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009418932
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Better Dead than GM-Fed? Information and theEffects of Consumers’ Resistance to GM-Foods inHigh-Income Countries
Huffman, Wallace E.; Rousu, Matthew C.; Shogren, Jason F.; … - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2003
This paper addressed the puzzling resistance of Presidents of southern African countries to food aid in 2002, given near certain starvation and long-term negative health effects of malnutrition of their constituents. First, I show that NGOs led by Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009418935
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Selbstständige in der Grundsicherung
May-Strobl, Eva; Pahnke, André; Schneck, Stefan; … - Institut für Mittelstandsforschung <Bonn> - 2011
Der Mittelstand besteht überwiegend aus Kleinstunternehmen, in denen der Unternehmensgründer allein tätig ist, und etablierten kleinen Unternehmen sowie Freiberuflern, die überwiegend lokale Märkte bedienen und keine oder wenige Mitarbeiter beschäftigen.2 Charakteristisch für den...
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