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Discouraged worker effect and labor market behavior of urban married women
Tayal, Deeksha; Paul, Sourabh Bikas - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 38 (2021) 2, pp. 93-122
The study investigates the importance of poor local labor market conditions in explaining the labor market behavior of married women in urban India. Using nationally representative employment data, we empirically test for the existence of a discouraged worker effect arising from either of two...
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How urbanization affects employment and social interactions
Satō, Yasuhiro; Zenou, Yves - 2014
We develop a model where the unemployed workers in the city can find a job either directly or through weak or strong ties. We show that, in denser areas, individuals choose to interact with more people and meet more random encounters (weak ties) than in sparsely populated areas. We also...
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In good company : neighborhood quality and female employment
Bechara, Peggy; Eilers, Lea; Paloyo, Alfredo R. - 2015
Using a uniquely assembled panel dataset, we estimate the impact of neighborhood and peer effects on female labor supply. Nonrandom sorting and unobserved heterogeneity at the individual and neighborhood levels make recovering these impact parameters more complicated in the absence of...
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The Employment and Earnings of Migrants in Great Britain
Andrews, Martyn J. - 2007
Using nationally representative, longitudinal data from the first 14 waves of the British Household Panel Survey we examine the labour market returns to inter-regional migration in Great Britain. Controlling for endogeneity, heterogeneity and self-selection, we find substantial long-run wage...
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Houses and/or Jobs : Ownership and the Labour Market in Belgian Districts
Isebaert, Daan; Heylen, Freddy; Smolders, Carine - 2021
In a number of papers A.J. Oswald (1996, 1997) argues that high rates of home ownership may imply inferior labour market outcomes. This paper tests the Oswald hypothesis in a panel of 42 Belgian districts since the 1970s. The use of data going back to 1970 allows us to embed the Oswald...
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Cohort size and youth labour-market outcomes : the role of measurement error
Moffat, John D.; Roth, Duncan - 2016
employment and unemployment outcomes is very sensitive to the age range of the sample. We argue that this is because the … size increases employment and reduces unemployment. …
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Youth graduates employment country studies of Albania and North Macedonia in economics programs
Mehmetaj, Nevila; Alili, Merita Zulfiu - In: Proceedings of the ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch … 6 (2020) 1, pp. 275-290
Albania and North Macedonia, as many countries in South-Eastern Europe, struggle with youth unemployment which is … unemployment through two case studies: Luigj Gurakuqi (LG) the University of Shkodra in Albania and South-East European (SEE … logistic regression analysis is used to estimate the correlation between employment/unemployment and the various explanatory …
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What shifts did COVID-19 year 2020 bring to the labour market in Europe?
Baert, Stijn - 2021
policy-oriented studies have dealt with the evolution of unemployment in 2020, often country by country, this letter focuses … on the evolution of unemployment as well as inactivity across European countries. Indeed, previous crises have typically … lead not only to more unemployment but also to larger numbers of discouraged unemployed and thus more inactivity. It …
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What shifts did Covid-19 year 2020 bring to the labour market in Europe?
Baert, Stijn - 2021
policy-oriented studies have dealt with the evolution of unemployment in 2020, often country by country, this article focuses … on the evolution of unemployment as well as inactivity across European countries. Indeed, previous crises have typically … lead not only to more unemployment but also to larger numbers of discouraged unemployed and thus more inactivity. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012505164
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Internal labour market mobility in 2005-2014 in Latvia : the micro data approach
Fadejeva, Ludmila; Opmane, Ieva - In: Baltic journal of economics 16 (2016) 2, pp. 152-174
. The survival analysis indicates that the flows from/to employment to/from unemployment in Latvia are determined by the …
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