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There is considerable debate on whether the employment and earnings prospects are better for those on low pay or for the unemployed. We use Understanding Society data for England and estimate dynamic random effects panel models which show robust evidence that the future unemployment risk is...
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other countries, this first study on Germany finds true state dependence in low pay jobs and confirms previous results of …
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This paper uses variation in unemployment caused by the 2008 recession to analyse socio- economic gaps in graduate outcomes. Our data comes from a survey which collects information on several cohorts of students from all English universities and reports their destinations at 6 months after...
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UK and Germany. While search and matching models argue that an unemployment phase might be used for an active job search … and rigid labour market in Germany creates a stigma attached to unemployment and therefore might have negative … Erwerbskarriere in Großbritannien und Deutschland hat. Während Such- und Matchingmodelle positive Effekte prognostizieren, sagen die …
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This paper investigates long-term returns from unemployment compensation, exploiting variation from the UK JSA reform of 1996, which implied a major increase in job search requirements for eligibility and in the related administrative hurdle. Search theory predicts that such changes should raise...
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We model annual low pay transition probabilities taking account of three potentially endogenous selections: two sample drop-out mechanisms (panel attrition, non-employment) and "initial conditions" (base-year low pay status). This model, and variants that ignore one or more of these selection...
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statutory minimum wage introduction in Germany in January 2015. A semi-structural estimation approach is employed based on a …
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Not only the level of aggregate unemployment but also the properties of its dynamics are an important topic in macroeconomics and labor economics. Several models like e.g. matching models with endogenous job destruction explicitly predict an asymmetric pattern in the evolution of unemployment,...
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