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enter into employment, and unemployment in the local area district. Largely unexplored in the literature this adds to the … work which has examined the association between employee wages and unemployment - the "wage curve". …
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small reduction in the unemployment benefits, or introducing a small cash bonus for workers that get a new job, may have no … e.ect on unemployment in some cases, while eradicating significant levels of unemployment in other cases. Our analysis … multiple equilibria may exist in a game involving both workers and an unemployment-averse government. Furthermore, we explore a …
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We examine the impact of household access to the internet on job finding rates in Germany during a period (2006_2009) in which internet access increased rapidly, and job-seekers in-creased their use of the internet as a search tool. During this period, household access to the internet was almost...
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causal relationship from homeownership to unemployment. The literature confirms a decreasing effect of homeownership on … geographical mobility of workers, but does not in general confirm that homeowners have longer unemployment spells or higher … unemployment rates. Even though this finding is related to heterogeneity in the labour force and associated selectivity effects …
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enter into employment, and unemployment in the local area district. Largely unexplored in the literature this adds to the … work which has examined the association between employee wages and unemployment – the 'wage curve' …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045839
Social networks may affect workers' labor market outcomes. Using rich spatial data from administrative records, we analyze whether the employment status of neighbors influences the employment probability of a worker who lost his job due to a plant closure and the channels through which this...
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spell at the time of interview and on all previous spells back to one year before is used to construct unemployment duration … data. Unemployment spells are defined as a series of monthly episodes ending up in a transition to job or out of labour … force, or right-censored. For any unemployment spell recorded at the time of interview, the individual is asked to report on …
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This paper examines the role of labor market frictions and moving costs in explaining the migration behavior of US workers by employment status. Using data on low-skilled workers from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), I estimate a dynamic model of individual labor supply and...
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Social networks may affect individual workers' labor market outcomes. Using rich spatial data from administrative records, we analyze whether neighbors' employment status influences an individual worker's employment probability after plant closure and, if hired, his wage. Our findings suggest...
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Social networks may affect workers' labor market outcomes. Using rich spatial data from administrative records, we analyze whether the employment status of neighbors influences the employment probability of a worker who lost his job due to a plant closure and the channels through which this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965012