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federal employment agency and data of real estate prices, we evaluate the impact of neighborhood unemployment on individual … neighborhood unemployment on the individual employment probability. …
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federal employment agency and data of real estate prices, we evaluate the impact of neighborhood unemployment on individual … neighborhood unemployment on the individual employment probability. …
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During the last intercensal period there was a net transfer of Indigenous Australians to urban Australia from more remote parts of the country. With the withdrawal of a number of Indigenous specific labour market programs, this net migration is likely to intensify into the future. The aim of...
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One of the six targets as part of the current ‘Closing the Gap’ agenda is to halve the gap in employment outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians within a decade (by 2018). Much of the focus around meeting this target has been the availability of jobs in remote Australia....
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Referral networks may affect the efficiency and equity of labor market outcomes, but few studies have been able to identify earnings effects empirically. To make progress, I set up a model of on-the-job search in which referral networks channel information about high-paying jobs. I evaluate the...
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The extent to which an increase in the unemployment rate has an effect on children’s wellbeing is not well understood …. This article provides estimates of the potential impact of an increase in the unemployment rate on behavioural and … unemployment rate leads to an increase in the number of children with behavioural or emotional problems. This finding underscores …
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This paper discusses the problem of unemployment in developed countries that faces international labor movement. There … are two types of unemployment. The first traditional type of unemployment exists simply because the common wage rate is …. Thus, this paper investigates the effects of immigration and other policies on the two types of unemployment. …
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With around 50% of the urban men between age 15 and 30 unemployed, Ethiopia has one of the highest unemployment rates … worldwide. This paper describes the nature of unemployment among young men in urban Ethiopia. We analyse the determinants of … incidence and duration and find that most variables have the same effect on both. Unemployment is concentrated among relatively …
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unemployment benefits, the existence of Active Labour Market Policies, the change in labour demand, segmentation of the labour … market, and unemployment as a queuing phenomenon. We test each of these explanations and find that labour market segmentation …
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unemployment rates, three different econometric models are specified and estimated: a cross-sectional model, a pooled data model …, and a model taking into account unobserved time-invariant effects on regional unemployment rates. It is found that the … link between home ownership and unemployment levels is inverse in cross-section but positive in panel estimations. The …
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