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Suicide and unemployment amongst young Australian males : 1966 to 1982
Martina, Alan - 1985
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Impact of unemployment on happiness in the United States
Sameem, Sediq; Buryi, Pavlo - In: Applied economics letters 26 (2019) 12, pp. 1049-1052
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Late-life work and well-being : flexible retirement may be one solution to the challenges of unemployment, aging populations, and public pension burdens
Graham, Carol - 2014
Flexible work time and retirement options are a potential solution for the challenges of unemployment, aging populations, and unsustainable pensions systems around the world. Voluntary part-time workers in Europe and the US are happier, experience less stress and anger, and are more satisfied...
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Late-career unemployment and cognitive abilities
Freise, Diana; Schmitz, Hendrik; Westphal, Matthias - 2022
We study the effect of unemployment on cognitive abilities among individuals aged between 50 and 65 in Europe. To this end, we exploit plant closures and use flexible event-study estimations together with an experimentally elicited measure of fluid intelligence, namely word recall. We find that,...
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The short-term effect of COVID-19 on self-employed workers in Canada
Beland, Louis-Philippe; Fakorede, Oluwatobi; Mikola, Derek - 2020
Using the Canadian Labour Force Survey, we document the short-term impact of COVID-19 on self-employed individuals in Canada, which we interpret as small business owners. We document an important decrease in business ownership between February 2020 and May 2020 (-14.8 percent for incorporated...
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Public employment redux
Garibaldi, Pietro; Gomes, Pedro; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - In: Journal of government and economics : JGE 1 (2021), pp. 1-32
. We find that the public-sector wage differential and excess underemployment account for 15 percent of the education bias …
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Informal Employment and Wages in Poland
Liwinski, Jacek - 2021
informal and formal workers, both at the means and along the wage distribution. I use two definitions of informal employment: a … (2009–2017). However, the wage penalty to informal employment is substantially higher for individuals at the bottom of the …Purpose: This paper tries to identify the wage gap between informal and formal workers and tests for the two …
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Rejuvenating Greece's labour market to generate more and higher-quality jobs
Bulman, Tim - 2020
Greece’s labour market entered the COVID-19 shock following several years of sustained employment growth and with wages … picking up. Unemployment remained high and employment rates were low, especially among women, the young and older workers. The … informality. This heightens insecurity – by excluding many workers from activation policies or social and employment protection …
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New technologies, migration and labour market adjustment : an intra-European perspective
Barišić, Antea; Ghodsi, Mahdi; Landesmann, Michael; … - 2024
, which in turn will have an impact on skill composition and wage levels of different types of workers. We report the main …
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An empirical investigation into the relationship between changes in the business cycle and the incidence of suicide
Snipes, Michael; Cunha, Timothy M.; Hemley, David D. - In: International journal of social economics 38 (2011) 5/6, pp. 477-491
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