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Courtship as an Investing Game : Labor-Market and Marriage-Market Outcomes by Age by Marriage
Zhang, Hanzhe - 2018
This paper documents relationships between age at marriage and labor-market out- come reflected by personal income as … well as relationships between age at marriage and marriage-market outcome reflected by spousal income for Americans born …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938075
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Education and Unemployment: A French-German Comparison
Lauer, Charlotte - 2003
examines the impact of education on both risk components. France faces a higher unemployment rate than West-Germany, due to a …. The risk of entering unemployment is particularly high for French employees with poor education, but higher education … unemployed, they are better in France than in West-Germany at all education levels, but particularly for the unemployed with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297286
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Education and unemployment : a French-German comparison
Lauer, Charlotte - 2003
examines the impact of education on both risk components. France faces a higher unemployment rate than West-Germany, due to a …. The risk of entering unemployment is particularly high for French employees with poor education, but higher education … unemployed, they are better in France than in West-Germany at all education levels, but particularly for the unemployed with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448577
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Making the labour market work better in Poland
Boulhol, Hervé - 2014
Poor labour-market outcomes remain one of Poland’s major structural weaknesses, impeding firms’ competitiveness and the nation’s potential output. Boosting employment prospects is also critical, as the country will soon be ageing at a fast pace. Despite long working hours, labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010375396
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The Duration of Immigrants? Unemployment Spells: Evidence from Sweden
Hansen, Jörgen - 2000
Using a proportional hazard model with multiple exits, this paper analyzes whether immigrants' unemployment spells differ from natives', and if so, how the difference vary with time spent in Sweden and across immigrant cohorts. A unique data set taken from the Swedish unemployment registers is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262362
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Chapter 55. Duration Models: Specification, Identification and Multiple Durations
Van Den Berg, Gerard J. - In: Handbook of econometrics : volume 5, (pp. 3381-3460). 2001
Since the early 1980s, the econometric analysis of duration variables has become widespread. This chapter provides an overview of duration analysis, with an emphasis on the specification and identification of duration models, and with special attention to models for multiple durations. Most of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024985
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The duration of immigrants' unemployment spells : evidence from Sweden
Hansen, Jörgen - 2000
Using a proportional hazard model with multiple exits, this paper analyzes whether immigrants' unemployment spells differ from natives', and if so, how the difference vary with time spent in Sweden and across immigrant cohorts. A unique data set taken from the Swedish unemployment registers is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333281
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Estimation in a Duration Model for Evaluating Educational Programs
Brännäs, Kurt - 2000
Swedish Adult Education Initiative and labour market training. The latter ones are included as controls and are found to have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262324
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Spurring growth in lagging regions in Slovak Republic
Demmou, Lilas; Haluš, Martin; Machlica, Gabriel; … - 2015
Regional inequality in Slovakia is among the highest in the OECD and is increasing. The main reason for regional disparity is the combination of low economic growth and job creation in the eastern and central part of the country and insufficient labour mobility to the west, in particular by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399343
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Tax policy and labor market performance
Bovenberg, Ary Lans - 2003
In exploring the impact of tax policy on labor-market performance, the paper first investigates how tax reform impacts labor supply and equilibrium unemployment in representative agent models. The impact of tax policy on labor market performance depends importantly on various other labor-market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509463