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Are there any differences in how men and women fare from unemployment in terms of the wages they receive on a new job? This paper addresses that question using the 1991 wave of the Level of Living Survey. The results suggest that men who experience unemployment will suffer a reduction of...
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the UK where work-family conflicts are the cause of high opportunity costs of motherhood, and the gender-specific division …This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by … bad occupational prospects and impending economic deprivation, placing the well-being of a future family at risk. I …
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parametric estimation methods are used, controlling for the unobserved heterogeneity. Two alternative definitions of unemployment …
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There is little evidence on unemployment duration and its determinants in developing countries. This study is on the duration aspect of unemployment in a developing country, Turkey. We analyze the determinants of the probability of leaving unemployment for employment or the hazard rate. The...
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firm-specific human capital or a family constraint. The compensating variation in terms of income is dramatic, indicating …
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I consider the concept of employment insecurity and provide new evidence for 1997 and 2005 for many countries with widely differing institutional contexts and at varying stages of development. There are no grounds for accepting that workplaces were going through a sea-change in employment...
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There is little evidence on unemployment duration and its determinants in developing countries. This study is on the duration aspect of unemployment in a developing country, Turkey. We analyze the determinants of the probability of leaving unemployment for employment or the hazard rate. The...
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This paper analyzes the relationship between time allocation decisions of the unemployed, gender, and regional …
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This paper uses data from the 1996 Australian Survey of Aspects of Literacy to examine the effects on labour market outcomes of literacy, numeracy and educational attainment. The survey includes a range of literacy and numeracy variables that are highly inter-correlated. A ?general to specific?...
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gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In line with descriptive evidence, we find lower … affect separations differently by gender. When additionally controlling for wages, we find that both separation rates are …
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