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The role of social work norms in job searching and subjective well-being

Stutzer, Alois; Lalive, Rafael - 2003 - revised December 2003

Social norms are usually neglected in economics, because they are to a large extent enforced through non-market interactions and difficult to isolate empirically. In this paper, we offer a direct measure of the social norm to work and we show that this norm has important economic effects. The...

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Return versus onward migration : go back or move on?

Bijwaard, Govert; Wahba, Jackline - 2022

This paper examines the impact of unemployment on out-migration by distinguishing between return and onward migration …, unemployment and out-migration using administrative data from the Netherlands. Our findings suggest that unemployment triggers … return migration more than onward migration. When total earnings are low unemployment increases the hazard of return …

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The Role of Social Work Norms in Job Searching and Subjective Well-Being

Stutzer, Alois; Lalive, Rafael - 2001

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Unemployment duration in Germany : a comprehensive study with dynamic hazard models and P-Splines

Kuhlenkasper, Torben; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich - 2011

unemployment duration in Germany. Due to substantial differences with respect to labour market outcomes we follow a stratified … approach with respect to gender and ethnicity. To analyze unemployment duration comprehensively, dynamic duration time models … are used in which covariate effects are allowed to vary smoothly with unemployment duration and others enter the model in …

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Do unemployed workers benefit from enterprise zones? : the French experience

Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry; Selod, Harris - In: Journal of public economics 96 (2012) 9/10, pp. 881-892

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Poverty and Aspirations Failure

Dalton, Patricio S. - 2011

We develop a theoretical framework to study the psychology of poverty and 'aspirations failure'. In our framework, the rich and the poor share the same preferences - and also a behavioral bias in setting aspirations. Greater downside risks imposed by poverty exacerbates the effects of this...

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Poverty and Aspirations Failure

Dalton, Patricio S. - 2011

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The Impact of Domestic Travel Bans on Covid-19 is Nonlinear in Their Duration

Burlig, Fiona; Sudarshan, Anant; Schlauch, Garrison - 2021

Domestic mobility restrictions to control the spread of COVID-19 are widespread in developing countries, and have trapped millions of migrant workers in hotspot cities. We show that bans can increase cumulative infections relative to a counterfactual san restrictions. A SEIR model shows bans’...

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Return Migration, Wage Differentials, and the Optimal Migration Duration

Dustmann, Christian - 2001

In simple static models, migration increases with the wage differential between host and home country. In a dynamic framework, and if migrations are temporary, the size of the migrant population in the host country depends also on the migration duration. This paper analyses optimal migration...

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The Optimal Migration Duration and Activity Choice after Re-migration

Dustmann, Christian; Kirchkamp, Oliver - 2001

If migrants return to their origin countries, two questions arise which are of immediate economic interest for both immigration and emigration country: What determines their optimal migration duration, and what are the activities migrants choose after a return. Little research has been devoted...

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