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Do the Unemployed Become Successful Entrepreneurs? A Comparison between the Unemployed, Inactive and Wage-Earners
Andersson, Pernilla; Wadensjö, Eskil - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
In many countries unemployed people are helped to become self-employed. Selfemployment, however, does not necessarily lead to success. Many leave self-employment after a short period and the economic outcome varies greatly. It is important to learn more about the economic outcome for unemployed...
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Monitoring Job Offer Decisions, Punishments, Exit to Work, and Job Quality
den Berg, Gerard J van; Vikström, Johan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search …
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Une théorie des relations sociales emploi et inégalité
Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In this paper, we consider a simple model that integrates the component of the social network as a research method of workers as well as a method of recruitment policy by firms. Indeed, taking into account the social sphere is fundamental to understand the labor market dynamic in developing...
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On intergenerational mobility in Italy: what a difficult future for the young
Roccisano, Federica - In: Review of Applied Socio-Economic Research 6 (2013) 2, pp. 203-216
The objective of this paper is to make a description of the economic perspective of young people in Italy. To do this we will analyze two important problems. First of all we analyze the level of public debt and the meaning of this for the present young generations as well for the future...
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Labour Mobility in Australia in the Nineties: A Preliminary Look at the Effects of the Technological Change.
Junankar, P.N.; kapuscinski, C.A.; Meng, X. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1997
This paper forms part of a larger Australian Research Council funded project designed to encrease our understanding of labour mobility and its determinants and , in particular, to trace the importance, strength and the effects of technological change on sectoral, occupational and inter-regional...
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How Much Can We Learn from International Comparisons of Intergenerational Mobility?
Blanden, Jo - Centre for the Economics of Education, LSE - 2009
This paper summarises research on the relative level of intergenerational mobility - whether classified by income, social class, social status or education - considering observations from 65 countries. With the exception of social class, the different approaches reveal similar patterns. South...
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Cross-national rankings of intergenerational mobility: a comparison of approaches from economics and sociology
Blanden, Jo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
This paper summarizes research on the relative level of intergenerational mobility – whether classified by income, education or social class. The literatures on education and income mobility reveal a similar ranking with South America, other developing nations, southern European countries and...
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"As Rare as a Panda": How Facial Attractiveness, Gender, and Occupation Affect Interview Callbacks at Chinese Firms
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Lei, Lei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This study explores how both gender and facial attractiveness affect job candidates' chances of obtaining interviews in China's dynamic Internet job board labor market. It examines how discrimination based on these attributes varies over occupation, location, and firms' ownership type and size....
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The Secular Rise in Unemployment Insurance Exhaustions and What Can Be Done about It
Smith, Ralph E. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2011
Over the past several decades, the rate at which regular unemployment insurance recipients run out of benefits before … recipients exhausted their benefits; in 2007 (with a similar unemployment rate) 35.6 percent exhausted. This paper documents the … increase in the exhaustion rate, along with the parallel rise in long-term unemployment; examines the consequences; and reviews …
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Unemployment, selective employment measures and inter-regional mobility of labour
Hämäläinen, Kari - In: Papers in Regional Science 81 (2002) 4, pp. 423-441
participants. We hypothesise that employment measures targeted at high unemployment regions may discourage out-migration of the … the mobility of the unemployed, but only during an era of low unemployment when the employment prospects in potential … destination regions are favourable. In an era of high unemployment, these measures are not likely to contribute to greater …
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