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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 … experience unemployment will suffer a reduction of subsequent wages while no such effect could be found for women. These findings … unemployment duration was rather short, which may have prevented general capital from depreciating. However, the presence of large …
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determinants of the gender unemployment gap in the Czech Republic using a method that decomposes unemployment rates into transition … (demographic, regional, cyclical) other than gender and marital status affect unemployment. We find that women?s lower probability … of exiting unemployment for a job explains the lion?s share of the gender gap in the unemployment rates in the Czech …
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who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and nationality. Based on an unusually informative … if caseworker and unemployed belong to the same social group. Coincidence in a single characteristic, e.g. same gender of …
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This paper examines the impact of unemployment on life satisfaction for Germany 1984-2006, using a sample of men and … unemployment on life satisfaction. This paper expands on previous cornerstone research from Winkelmann and Winkelmann (1998) and … explicitly identifies truly exogenous unemployment entries starting from 1991. We find that for women in East and West Germany …
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known institutional characteristics. In general, subjective employment insecurity tracks the unemployment rate. …
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country has experienced since the Great Depression. The unemployment rate reached as high as 10.1 percent in October 2009 … those in the past by examining worker flows into and out of unemployment taking into account changes in the demographic …, gender and race. We find that adjusting for the aging of the U.S. labor force increases the severity of this recession. Our …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between time allocation decisions of the unemployed, gender, and regional … unemployment rates. Using the Spanish Time Use Survey 2002-2003 and 2009-2010, we find that higher regional unemployment rates are … channel through which others' unemployment affects time allocation decisions of the unemployed. As higher regional …
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so-called 'knowledge industries' fed into an increased demand in Australia for better-educated workers. As the twentieth …
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suicides on a general population's suicide rate. This study presents a new approach to empirically disentangle both mechanisms … unexpectedly from causes other than suicide (accidents, illnesses, alcohol abuse). Based on language and page-link data from 3 …,855 Wikipedia pages of 495 celebrities who committed suicide between 1960 and 2014, we measure the status a celebrity has in a …
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of non-standard and precarious employment. Women and men have relatively equal levels of unemployment at present, but the … course, while men are more likely to experience unemployment at the entry and exit points to the labor market. Unemployment … measures are directed mainly at alleviating the sources of male unemployment. Employment deregulation in Japan embodies varying …
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