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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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Investment opportunities in the source country and temporary migration

Djajic, Slobodan - 2009

This paper examines how attractive investment opportunities available to temporary migrants in their country of origin affect their saving behavior and the optimal duration of stay abroad. The model predicts an inverse U-shaped relationship between migration duration and the expected rate of...

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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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