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Do the unemployed accept jobs too quickly? : a comparison with employed job seekers
Longhi, Simonetta - 2015
This paper analyses differences between unemployed and employed job seekers in job finding rates and in the quality of the job found. Compared to the unemployed, employed job seekers have a smaller pool of job offers that they consider acceptable; this leads to lower job finding rates but better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283136
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Job search methods, intensity and success in Britain in the 1990s
Böheim, René; Taylor, Mark P. - 2002
We investigate the use of various job search strategies and their impact on the probability of subsequent employment and the re-employment wage among working age men in Britain. We find that replying to advertisements and using Job Centres are the two most common methods of job search and that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009750237
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Happiness and work
Krause, Annabelle - 2014
The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The analyses are mostly based on large-scale survey data to measure subjective well-being. Whereas one large strand of research investigates the effect of job loss and becoming...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403446
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The iceberg decomposition: a parsimonious way to map the health of labour markets
Baert, Stijn - 2020
historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much … larger. Therefore, we point to the clear limitations of the unemployment rate as the (single) key macro-economic indicator of … the health of the labour market. A parsimonious dashboard approach utilising the unemployment-to-population ratio and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012254253
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The iceberg decomposition : a parsimonious way tomap the health of labour markets
Baert, Stijn - 2020
historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much … larger. Therefore, we point to the clear limitations of the unemployment rate as the (single) key macro-economic indicator of … the health of the labour market. A parsimonious dashboard approach utilising the unemployment-to-population ratio and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249694
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The evolution of catholic-protestant labour market inequality in Northern Ireland, 1983-2014
Rowland, Neil; McVicar, Duncan; Shuttleworth, Ian - 2018
one very well-known differential - the Catholic/ Protestant unemployment differential in Northern Ireland - has largely … signing of the Good Friday Agreement, the introduction of fair employment legislation, growth in hidden unemployment, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011880336
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State dependence in unemployment incidence : evidence for British men revisited
Arulampalam, Wiji - 2002
unemployment. In addition, allowance is also made to accommodate the "stayer" phenomenon in the state of employment. All these were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414818
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Do job creation schemes improve the social integration and well-being of the long-term unemployed?
Ivanov, Boris; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Pohlan, Laura - 2019
In this paper we analyze the effects of a German job creation scheme (JCS) on the social integration and well-being of long-term unemployed individuals. Using linked survey and administrative data for participants and a group of matched non-participants, we find significant positive effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012118755
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Bounding the causal effect of unemployment on mental health : nonparametric evidence from four countries
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Kühnle, Daniel; Oberfichtner, Michael - 2017
An important, yet unsettled, question in public health policy is the extent to which unemployment causally impacts … fairly weak and partially testable assumptions, our paper shows that unemployment has a significant negative effect on mental … short periods of unemployment. Public policy should hence focus on early prevention of mental health problems among the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636341
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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