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Contrary to the experiences of other countries, perceptions of job insecurity in Russia were not correlated with the … rates of unemployment and the business cycle over the last decade. We develop the theoretical framework that predicts that … the individual perceptions of job insecurity depend on regional unemployment rates and on the within-group variance of …
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High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well … sensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in the public sector than in the private … unemployment. …
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High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well … sensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in the public sector than in the private … unemployment. …
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High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well … sensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in the public sector than in the private … unemployment. …
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Modern welfare policies are increasingly based on notions of reciprocity. Citizens on welfare benefits have to do something in return, e.g. volunteer work. Notwithstanding general public support, social philosophers have been critical on 'mandatory' activities in community programmes. So far,...
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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...
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-setting mechanisms and the cyclicality of unemployment in Euroland. We find that in the 1990s unemployment cyclicality has been higher in … still offer a convincing explanation for a significant part of Euroland's problem of persistently high unemployment. There …
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sector in a model of equilibrium unemployment. We find that higher firing costs may even reduce temporary work agency …
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A historically high level of youth unemployment presents Greece with a huge social and economic challenge. This paper …
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This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high … to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported reservation wages decline at a modest rate over the spell of unemployment, with … point estimates ranging from 0.05 to 0.14 percent per week of unemployment. The decline in reservation wages is driven …
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