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This study investigates the employment and wage disparities between people with and without disabilities. It shows that … unemployment rates, are more likely to be self-employed and tend to earn lower wages. These disparities do not appear to be …, the potentially greater job flexibility offered by self-employment, and discrimination against people with disabilities …
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that the two dimensions of the extensive margin, the employment rate and the participation rate, explain the most of the …
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Arbeitszeit zudem noch zu klären, (1) inwieweit die Aufforderung zur Verdienstanpassung überlesen oder sogar missverstanden wird … Arbeitszeit als Ankerpunkte gewählt werden. … ask respondents specifically about desired working hours in relation to their employment in second jobs. To what extent …
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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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than it was in 1989. Last, the rate of self-employment has been falling gently in ISSP data; even so three to four times as … satisfied than are employees, one consistent interpretation of the above is that the barriers to self-employment have grown in …
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This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of … estimates show that measured employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment … official definitions in apparently minor ways can produce alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but …
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immigrants arriving in Australia at the end of the 1990s. Moreover, approximately half of the fall in men?s unemployment rates … selection policy can facilitate employment outcomes for new arrivals over the medium run. The results indicate that the … also stems from increases in productive skills, though the substantial decline in women?s unemployment rates are driven …
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education on labour force participation and on unemployment can be attributed to literacy and numeracy (the indirect effect) and … literacy and numeracy on participation or unemployment. The direct and total effects of experience are the same. The findings …
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The paper investigates (a) the number and structure of available jobs by gender in East and West Germany, (b) the gap between the supply and demand of jobs by gender in both regions and (c) the reasons for the wider "job gap" in East Germany compared with West Germany. The paper uses data from...
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risks surrounding unemployment and employment transitions to affect well-being both directly and indirectly through their …This paper shows that employability strongly moderates the effects of unemployment and of job insecurity on well …-being. I develop a simple framework for employment insecurity and employability with two key features. First, it allows for the …
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