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The effect of unemployment on noncognitive skills
Kleinjans, Kristin J. - In: Applied economics letters 27 (2020) 17, pp. 1387-1390
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Defining opportunity versus necessity entrepreneurship : two components of business creation
Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M. - In: Change at home, in the labor market, and on the job, (pp. 253-289). 2021
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Heterogenous effects of entering the labor market during a recession : new evidence from Germany
Umkehrer, Matthias - In: CESifo economic studies : a joint initiative of the … 65 (2019) 2, pp. 177-203
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Adjusting labor along the intensive margins
Biddle, Jeff; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2024
We expand the analysis of cyclical changes in labor demand by decomposing changes along the intensive margin into those in days/week and in hours/day. Using large cross sections of U.S. data, 1985-2018, we observe around ¼ of the adjustment in weekly hours occurring through changing days/week....
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The performance of immigrants in the German labor market
Beyer, Robert - 2017
This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
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Immigrants and unemployment in the European Community : from the eyes of natives
Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002 - November 1999 (revised: May 2002)
This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the …-born workers' assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of … immigrants and unemployment among native-born workers. …
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Young FSU migrants in Germany : educational attainment and early labor market outcomes
Flake, Regina - 2013
This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational attainments than natives, and that within the group of...
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Labour market developments in Germany : tales of decency and stability
Ruoff, Bea - 2016
Labour market developments in Germany can be separated into two major shocks: German reunification in the early 1990s, and the Hartz reforms in the early 2000s. In this paper it is argued that these two shocks divide the German wage bargaining system into the old labour market system, which is...
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Business cycle asymmetries and the labor market
Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2016 - First version: April 2015. This version: February 2016
density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …
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The impact of long-run macroeconomic experiences on personality
Vellekoop, Nathanae͏̈l - 2016
aggregate unemployment is negatively correlated with the levels of all Big Five personality traits, except for conscientiousness … experienced aggregate unemployment cause changes in emotional stability and agreeableness for men, and conscientiousness for women … driver is experienced aggregate unemployment, instead of other macroeconomic variables as experienced GDP, stock market …
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