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Wiederaufbau in Nord-Uganda: wie kommen die Menschen nach dem Bürgerkrieg zurecht?

Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman; Muhumuza, Tony - In: DIW Wochenbericht 78 (2011) 16, pp. 10-14

Gewalttätige Konflikte sind vor allem in notleidenden Regionen der Welt verbreitet, es ist aber wenig darüber bekannt, wie die Wirklichkeit der betroffenen Menschen aussieht und welche Entscheidungen sie zu fällen haben. In diesem Bericht untersuchen wir, wie Individuen während des...

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Movers or stayers? Understanding the drivers of IDP camp decongestion during post-conflict recovery in Uganda

Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman; Muhumuza, Tony - 2012

aftermath of violent conflict. Our analysis is based on two sources of information: household survey data collected in northern … Uganda for households that were displaced by the civil conflict, and geo-referenced data on armed conflict events, with which … we construct our developed index of recent conflict exposure. We compare households that moved out of camps with those …

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Activity choices of internally displaced persons and returnees: Quantitative survey evidence from post-war northern Uganda

Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman; Muhumuza, Tony - 2011

We study the effect of living in an internally displaced people's (IDP) camp on economic activity choices in post war … household data with micro-level conflict data to control for endogeneity (selection of households out from camps). We find a … strong effect of camp residence on activity choices. Particularly, individuals in IDP camps are more inclined to cultivate …

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Reference-dependent effects of unemployment on mental well-being

Grunow, Martina - 2014

This paper provides an empirical analysis of reference-dependent effects of unemployment on mental well-being. We show that the negative effect of unemployment on mental well-being depends on expectations about the future employment status. Several contributions to the literature have shown that...

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Changes in labour market transitions in Ireland over the Great Recession: what role for policy?

Bergin, Adele; Kelly, Elish; McGuinness, Seamus - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 9, pp. 1-18

This paper assesses the impact the Great Recession had on individuals' transitions to and from unemployment in Ireland. The rate of transition from unemployment to employment declined between 2006 and 2011, while the rate from employment to unemployment increased. The results indicate that young...

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The scarring effect of unemployment from the early '90s to the Great Recession

Tumino, Alberto - 2015

This paper addresses two issues of great importance in the current economic climate. First, it analyses the extent to which unemployment experiences have a scarring effect on British men during the Great Recession. Second, it provides an insight into the relation between true state dependence...

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Reference-dependent effects of unemployment on mental well-being

Grunow, Martina - 2014

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The labor market in Ireland, 2000-2016

Bergin, Adele; Kelly, Elish - In: IZA World of Labor (2018)

Ireland was hit particularly hard by the global financial crisis, with severe impacts on the labor market. The unemployment rate increased dramatically, and the labor force participation rate declined by four percentage points between 2007 and 2012. Outward migration re-emerged as a safety valve...

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Interrelationships among locus of control and years in management and unemployment: Differences by gender

Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - 2010

This paper focuses on gender differences in the role played by locus of control within a model that predicts outcomes for men and women at two opposite poles of the labour market: high level managerial / leadership positions and unemployment. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel,...

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Recessions and the Labor Market Returns to Cognitive and Social Skills

Frisvold, David E.; Kim, Sun Hyung - 2024

Although recessions negatively affect labor market outcomes, we find that individuals with greater cognitive skills have been less affected by recessions since 2000 compared to those in the 1980s and 1990s. This result occurs despite a decrease in the returns to cognitive skills over the last...

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