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Getting to Work : Unemployment and Economic Recovery in Los Angeles
Flaming, Daniel - 2016
Unemployment and under-employment represented $25.8 billion in annual wages not earned in Los Angeles County, $28 … where one or more breadwinners are under-employed. Unemployment and under-employment rates in LA peaked at the end of 2010 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993406
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Happiness and work
Krause, Annabelle - 2014
The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The analyses are mostly based on large-scale survey data to measure subjective well-being. Whereas one large strand of research investigates the effect of job loss and becoming...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403446
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Do job creation schemes improve the social integration and well-being of the long-term unemployed?
Ivanov, Boris; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Pohlan, Laura - 2019
In this paper we analyze the effects of a German job creation scheme (JCS) on the social integration and well-being of long-term unemployed individuals. Using linked survey and administrative data for participants and a group of matched non-participants, we find significant positive effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012118755
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Is a sorrow shared a sorrow doubled? : parental unemployment and the life satisfaction of adolescent children
Borah, Melanie; Knabe, Andreas; Lücke, Christine - 2023
This paper examines possible spillover effects of parental unemployment on the subjective wellbeing of 12- to 21-year …-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their … unemployment has negative effects, while no effect of fathers' unemployment can be detected. In subgroup analyses, we do not find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014431287
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Heterogeneity in the relationship between unemployment and subjective well-being : a quantile approach
Binder, Martin; Coad, Alexander - 2014
Unemployment has been robustly shown to strongly decrease subjective well-being (or "happiness"). In the present paper …, we use panel quantile regression techniques in order to analyze to what extent the negative impact of unemployment varies … unemployed. A similar but stronger effect of unemployment is found for a broad mental well-being variable (GHQ-12). For happy and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010365092
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Labour market flexibility and unemployment duration: evidence from the UK
Avram, Silvia - 2020
Using a combination of UKHLS and LFS data and a discrete time model, we test the hypothesis that unstable jobs with variable hours or pay enhance the job finding chances of the unemployed in the UK. We nd no evidence that the share of unstable jobs in the unemployed person's local labour market...
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Do the unemployed accept jobs too quickly? : a comparison with employed job seekers
Longhi, Simonetta - 2015
This paper analyses differences between unemployed and employed job seekers in job finding rates and in the quality of the job found. Compared to the unemployed, employed job seekers have a smaller pool of job offers that they consider acceptable; this leads to lower job finding rates but better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283136
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Business cycle asymmetries and the labor market
Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2016 - First version: April 2015. This version: February 2016
density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444082
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Business cycle asymmetries and the labor market
Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2016
density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455340
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Business cycle asymmetries and the labor market
Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2016 - This Version: February 2016
density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447126