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Unemployment among younger and older individuals: does conventional data about unemployment tell us the whole story?

Axelrad, Hila; Malul, Miki; Luski, Israel - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 52 (2018) 3, pp. 1-12

improve the rate of employment for older individuals. …

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Life Satisfaction Differences between Workers and Non-Workers - The Value of Participation per se

van Praag, Bernard M.S.; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2002

Is working more than monetary income? This paper attempts to give an answer to this question on the basis of the German Socio-economic Panel data set. By comparing the satisfaction with life between workers and non-workers with the same household income, the monetary value of participating in...

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Unemployment accounts and employment incentives

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, … - 2006

people’s employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the …

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Women between Part-Time and Full-Time Work: The Influence of Changing Hours of Work on Happiness and Life-Satisfaction

Gash, Vanessa; Mertens, Antje; Gordo, Laura Romeu - 2010

This paper asks whether part-time work makes women happy. Previous research on labour supply has assumed that as workers freely choose their optimal working hours on the basis of their innate preferences and the hourly wage rate, outcome reflects preference. This paper tests this assumption by...

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Part-time work in EU countries: labour market mobility, entry and exit

Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Mourre, Gilles; Ward-Warmedinger, … - 2005

part-time work being used as a stepping stone into full-time employment, but for a small proportion of individuals (less …-time, over part-time employment, than in the US, with considerable variation across EU countries. …

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Labour market effects of job displacement for prime-age and older workers

Deelen, Anja; de Graaf-Zijl, Marloes; van den Berge, Wiljan - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 7 (2018) 3, pp. 1-30

This paper studies the effects of firm closures associated with bankruptcies on the employment status and wages of …

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Do informational nudges alter firms’ hiring behavior of older workers?

Homrighausen, Pia; Lang, Julia - 2019

information brochures) did change firms' employment behavior. The cheap and mild intervention increased the employment rate of …

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The unequal impact of raising the retirement age: Employment response and program substitution

Ardito, Chiara - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 10 (2021) 1, pp. 1-37

employment rate since workers also apply for more disability and unemployment benefits. Moreover, most of them simply retire … delay in pension claims, increase in employment, and inactivity. All in all, this paper shows that raising the NRA could …

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Do informational nudges alter firms' hiring behavior of older workers?

Homrighausen, Pia; Lang, Julia - 2019

information brochures) did change firms' employment behavior. The cheap and mild intervention increased the employment rate of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012244623

Employed but Still Unhappy? On the Relevance of the Social Work Norm

Chadi, Adrian - 2011

In the modern welfare state, people who cannot make a living usually receive financial assistance from public funds. Accordingly, the so-called social work norm against living off other people is violated, which may be the reason why the unemployed are so unhappy. If so, however, labour market...

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